Memes are a low mental-cost, medium of communication across trust boundaries.

That’s why they are so powerful, like money.

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I'm not debating they are powerful. I think my original point implicitly concedes that. I'm arguing they lower information content in the discourse, tend towards framing things in black and white, in-group and out-group.

The Duality of Money and Memes. ☯️