Katie Gerstenberg: Blog 3, Memes

I decided to read Davidsons's "The Language of Internet Memes" and besides the hilarious memes that he included in his writings, I was fascinated by his ability to correlate biological genetics to internet memes, like who does that? He explains how there are two zebras, both genetically coded with one having long legs, and the other coded for shot legs. while they are being chased, the short legged zebra gets eaten because s/he ran slower than the longer legged zebra; therefore, there are more long legged zebras in the world today. Or, in other words, "survival of the fittest." In relation,  "memes rely on the mental processes of observation and learning" (121). So while the long legged zebra is capable of being passed onto a new generation, successful memes are capable of being replicated into a new organism in a new generation, and could create new, funnier, better ideas.
SO I decided to analyze Bill Lumbergh from Office Space (1999) and I took memes and saw how they have changed over time, in relation to school memes!