Comment by VikingCoder
6 days ago
I don't know what you'd call something structured like this, but I really love that advice:
"You can't change the people around you -
But you can change the people around you."
6 days ago
I don't know what you'd call something structured like this, but I really love that advice:
"You can't change the people around you -
But you can change the people around you."
What is the difference between a Straussian meme and a double entendre?
Allegedly a Straussian meme is "self stabilizing" because it imposes some sort of cost to buying into the lower or higher meaning. So it's a multiple entendre that has ideological or epistemic implications. (I'm not convinced this is a thing, the examples were pretty contrived.)
Whereas in the example here, acting on that advice is costly (it means losing friends) but believing it is free. And there aren't different layers of meaning accessible to different parties. It's straightforwardly a play on words.
I've been trying to come up with "self stabilizing" examples since yesterday, but think I finally may have stumbled upon one:
"Prep hop" videos, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPpjU1UeAo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1N3WXZ_1LM , may get forwarded by members of different subcultures for two different reasons: the first because they appreciate the comic satirisation of others, and the second because they appreciate how the comics have sweated the details of their own subculture — "we are like that only".
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McMSHqWM3G8
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I think one is more interpretation vs lexical similarity