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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] htrayl 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Things that have been improving:

  • Global poverty rate (going down)
  • Global average lifespan (going up)
  • Global literacy rate (going up)
  • Global internet access (going up)
  • Global infant mortality and maternal mortality (going down)

The reality is, most of the world by many metrics is getting better over time. There are things that threaten this (climate change and increasing authorititarianism) and it has slowed, but overall we are still generally positive trajectory wise. In fact, I would say that in most metrics that matter, we are improving.

[–] xenoclast 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The planet is sleep walking into a global climate collapse and an global fascist era like nothing history has ever seen.

Pretending we're not because right now some graphs are curving up because of previous momentum is pretty dangerous.

I did say that healthcare is an exception and most of the stuff you mentioned is healthcare related.. When you're riding the rollercoaster up to the top of the hill, do you think it goes up forever? I don't think any of these positive trends are going to last longer than a generation at BEST.