Any meme genius would tell you memes are not just playful entertainment, but pure magic! But memes can be used to win wars and to control you MIND!? (Excuse me?)
Creating a “Meme Warfare Center” advising the President on meme generation, transmission, and a detailed analysis on enemy, friendly and noncombatant populations… They’ve even made structure diagrams for this..
Lets go back the the NYPD’s hashtag boongoggle show casing how quickly things can go wrong.. having these big institutions trying to control messaging on the internet. I’m not saying research should be abandoned or meme disposed of altogether, but as the NYPD case and other examples show, the establishment isn’t really built for meme warfare.