When a group of people people and/or a culture is wiped out, that group's meaning systems are also destroyed and this can be referred to as a "mimeticide." Alternatively, the group of people may continue to live on, but their meaning systems are forbidden by the dominant or conquering culture.
The conquest of the Americas by Europeans was a mimeticide as it wiped out uncountable indigenous groups and their meaning systems.
by Mimetic Tinkerer March 09, 2023
A metaphor to describe the meaning systems that humans "run" on -- similar to software for a computer. Our meaningware consists of the "coded" meanings we inherit from our cultures, families and personal experiences and education. Similar to software, our meaningware can require updates, security patches and can have fatal bugs that cause major problems.
Life just isn't making much sense to me these days -- I think I need to debug my meaningware.
Man, I wonder when she last updated her meaningware?
Man, I wonder when she last updated her meaningware?
by Mimetic Tinkerer March 09, 2023