Long ago, the West used to think that many living creatures just suddenly formed out of inanimate stuff.
Fascinating. Looking forward to hearing more…
https://knowyourmeme.com/ is unironically one the best repositories on the life cycles of memes and would be an essential resource for digesting the broader patterns and boiling them down to their essence if such a thing was actually possible.
Yep! That and https://tvtropes.org/ . TV Tropes is one of the best repositories of memetic structures in stories that I’m aware of.
(I’d call them “archetypes” but a lot of them aren’t that old ('“archaeo”).)
Fascinating. Looking forward to hearing more…
https://knowyourmeme.com/ is unironically one the best repositories on the life cycles of memes and would be an essential resource for digesting the broader patterns and boiling them down to their essence if such a thing was actually possible.
Yep! That and https://tvtropes.org/ . TV Tropes is one of the best repositories of memetic structures in stories that I’m aware of.
(I’d call them “archetypes” but a lot of them aren’t that old ('“archaeo”).)