Reflections Upon 10 Years In The Meme Wars (Part 1)
Time flies when you're fighting 5th Generation Warfare...
Further installments in this series will be published over at Craving Ratio, so give my brother a sub if you haven’t already!
Ten years and one month ago today, Donald Trump rode down an escalator and changed the course of history.
Regardless of what one thinks of that event now, I seriously doubt ANYBODY realized the impact that event would have, both politically and culturally. I know I didn’t.
By 2016 I was politically agnostic. I had always dutifully voted blue-no-matter-who, because muh ANTI-WAR nonsense. But in 2016 my pet issue had become END THE FED, having been educated on the topic of FAKE MONEY by Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) during his suppressed 2008 Presidential candidacy. (When a Bernie Bro later bitched to me about Hillary head-stomping him in 2016, I smiled ruefully and pointed to RP’08 as the template). I was so appalled by the RNC’s complete marginalization of RP that I wrote-in his name in November. And again in 2012.
By 2016 I was done with protest voting. I was completely ignorant of how bad Hillary would have been. Also, to me the entire Republican field were interchangeable RINOs (led by the repulsive Ted Cruz). And Trump, to me, was just another rich guy. Business as usual. Ignore.
Simultaneously, that summer I was introduced to the concept of MEMES. A college professor friend told me that they had become all the rage on campus, and showed me some that he had collected. Unfortunately they were mostly movie and TV references which went right over-my-head, having divorced PopCultureLLC™ some 10 years earlier. His comment: “if ya hafta ‘splain it, it’s not funny” (true dat). But he assured me that lots of them weren’t just silly word-play, and encouraged me to poke around online. I did that. Then I started stealing them. And I still have that folder…now engorged with the fruits of my piracy.
Here are some of the first adds…
I was continually amazed by the cleverness of these anonymous creators and their cattywampus thinking ability. Little did I know that I was being recruited.
Behold, my tentative baby steps into Meme Warriorhood:
Looking back over these selections, 10 years seems both like just yesterday, and like a lifetime ago. The polarizing effect of the Trump presidency had yet to manifest, and I had no idea that I was about to be enlisted in the Meme Wars to save Western Civilization.
I was soon to become ‘Anon, Destroyer Of Narratives...’
Thanks to Craving Ratio for the crosspost invite! Cheers frens!
And to you Fren!.....see you in Halls of Meme !....
Nice,.....I'm almost right along side you...STG was about today last good tv, and thanks for the additions to my folder, love the one about music, hit home as a musician.....thanks for your post...