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0 pointsrvr_4y ago0 comments

School shooting is a memetic behavior, on the classical sense disseminated by R. Dawkins, not Internet's one.

Can we rephrase the problem as: how do a society gets rid of a bad meme?

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Pxtl4y ago· 1 in thread

Memes are international. American cultural hegemony is global. Evidence: I'm a Canadian and can name all members of the US supreme Court from memory and zero members of the Canadian one.

Memes do not stop at borders, and yet the hot zone for the school shooting plague is localized within the USA.

It's the cheap plentiful, underregulated firearms.

qball4y ago

>I'm a Canadian and can name all members of the US supreme Court from memory and zero members of the Canadian one.

To be fair, the Canadian Supreme Court rarely does anything of everyday relevance to Canadians, much like all aspects of the political system except for which party happens to be in power (the exact identity of the PM is similarly irrelevant, though everyone knows who that is).

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