Meme Me! Meme ME!

Me-Me- Me- MEME! What is a Meme? To some it's just a 'Me-Me,' but to others it is far much more. I suppose I'll start with the Me-Me. But let me assure you, I am not dismissing the late night discussions between Richard and us paleontological anti-war activist types studying cetacean behavior and communication in the SF bay area, or strapping on Alpha Wave Detectors and getting underage tipsy talking to advanced philodendrons. Ever get a plant drunk? Long story, maybe another time. Those are just some memories of my juvenile delinquent days - and I surely was that, but I'm not blaming Richard. Sometimes that meme cultural transmission phenotype stuff was to mundane for me, so I hung with the comedians, like Dick Gregory and other meme-like icons of the time. Our visual 'memes' now have become reduced, down-sized, facebooked, twitted, instagrammed, and exploited by advertising to such an extent that our cultural genome is supersaturated. Indeed, saturated to such an extent that the contamination it brought, both good and evil, is destined to remain in our near cultural phenotypic chaos that we have today and will continue to affect our lives for a very long time --- or until the electricity runs out or we die out, whatever comes first. Back in the protest People's Park Berkeley days Richard, nor myself truly knew where it was all going, but we steered the course as best we could. Nothing like a Haight-Ashbury 'Free Speech' Poster holding it's own, and proving our point? But there again. It is the poets, the painters, the song writers, the novelists, the proseists, the journalists, the video journalists, the clay-shapers, sculpturists, photographers, and memeists, etc, that change the world. So join us and become one of them! Want to express yourself? MeMe, or meme? Probably and originally, a way to both represent culture and create culture, a cultural theme, if I am allowed to change the first consonant is to do it. Let's Do It. More of often than not, it is a combination of both. The Ingredients are simple: 1.) A public figure, perhaps, or a visual icon of one sort or another. 2.) A catchy phrase. Hmmm... I think that is all! Now you know why the advertising industry is so lucrative, and I should know, I worked in this industry—just love the subliminal stuff! But I wasn't selling lipstick, or deodorants, or Exxon, or Mobile, or FMC, or Monsanto, no! I was selling Good Ideas. Ideas that are rich for us all, enriching you I might say, and not just for the tiny few. Ideas to change the world in ways that give us all a healthier future, maybe a future at all. Well... As you might expect, that reduced not only the number of my clients, but also the number of corporations that secured my services. But there are those that did, and some needn't even to ask. What names do we go by? What do some scholars call us.? Muckrakers, Artists, Loraxes, Cartoonists, to add to our list above. So here are a few emanating Memes for Pocatello, we know there are more so put yours in our Editorial Cartoon/Meme section. Let's change the world. Or at least Pocatello. Let's DO It!