Richard Dawkins spreads his memes

That was one weird video. I've no idea what kind of audience it was for or what he was trying to do. Anybody know any context to this?
 
There are devices they sell at the pharmacy to help stop the spread of memes.
 
What the **** did I just watch? :boggled:

I will say... for being so damn good at speaking extemporaneously, he really is quite mediocre at reading from a script.

He was rockin' the Aloha shirt though. :D
 
Memes are like roller coasters. Good ones you can recount to friends and convince them to try it. Bad ones, like in the video, just leave with memories of mental vomit. :sour:

My head. ow.
 
On the plus side, Dawkins acknowledged my least-favorite part of meme theory: the implication that creativity is non-existent, and is merely the product of mutations of mind-viruses.

Then the video went insane, and I gave up. I only watched out of morbid curiosity anyway (meme theory is fatally flawed and only works as a metaphore in some limited cases), and that was just not worth it.
 
I watched it. I did not get it. Entertaining, yes.....but I don't see the point.
 
This reminds me of The Magic of Reality--his attempt to address people 'of all ages,' which managed to target a bored audience of eight-year-olds and stupid people who didn't care anyway.
 
Someone in the comments beat me to the "kill the Malaysian prime minister" joke.

I don't think I would ever have imagined Dawkins playing an EWI, but now having seen it, it makes perfect sense.
 
I think he must have been expecting that to be a bit more mind-blowing than it was. Maybe the audience would have enjoyed it a bit more than watching it on You Tube, but really, if it was a joke, it wasn't really funny and if it was supposed to be genuinely artistic or creative then I think there are plenty of third-rate psychadelic album cover designers from the 70s who could have done better.
 
Jim_MDP said:
What the **** did I just watch? :boggled:

I will say... for being so damn good at speaking extemporaneously, he really is quite mediocre at reading from a script.

He was rockin' the Aloha shirt though. :D
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Yes, the reading bit was excruciating. It was as if he was reading it for the first time. Very odd all round.
 
Actually looked a bit like The Residents' visual style to me. Which is generally not a bad thing, but hard to pull off.

It annoyed me that they used that cheapo AKAI MIDI horn. At Saatchi, they should be able to at least afford an Eigenharp, which would be classier.
 
And the ironic thing is that that video contained virtually no memes, and the ones it did contain I'd never seen before. Where was Boxxy? Where was the Dramatic Chipmunk? Rebecca Black? Mckayla Moroney not being impressed? "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"? Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat? The Honey Badger? A Double Rainbow? Rick Astley? There wasn't even a Gangnam Style or a Harlem Shake.

Wowbagger said:
Richard Dawkins is answering a very important question, here:

What would the 1960s look like, if they actually took place in the 2010s?
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More like the mid-1990s.

It really is like the whole thing was an exercise in being completely out of touch.
 
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