Wikis are meme pools.
A Human is a meme pool.
Culture is a meme pool.
A Book is a meme pool.
It seems, that meme live in meme pools.
It seems that if everything is a meme or a meme pool then the logical contents of these statements shrink to nil.
Does the word “meme” really make a (magical?) difference in describing a well-known reality?
What is the problem that “meme” solves? Or the new problem that the word “meme” helps us to formulate?
Yes, if a term equally applies to everything, then that term is not useful. (The earliest such term I’ve heard about is “All is Fire”).
However, the term “meme” and “meme pool” are not intended to apply to everything. For example,
So the term “meme” has some information content, although some people suspect it is merely a sophisticated-sounding synonym for “idea” or “fad” (See Wiki:MemesAreNotScience ). Wikipedia:Talk:Meme