A friend of mine, Gorm Nykreim, has coined a word to describe the emotion of wanting to share memes with friends and others. The word is "Memious". He based the word on another word in English, "Envious". When you feel envy, you want what other people have. When you feel memy, you want to share the ideas that you have come across. The more that I think about this, though, the more I think that memiousness is far more than just sharing ideas.
FastCompany asks how you would spend $100million to really save education. I have an answer, but it is unlikely to happen unless I become rich someday and can put this idea into practice. I'd start out with a pilot program that put education back where it belongs, in the center of family life. I'd do that while helping poor families to rise up out of poverty, educate themselves, and build their communities.
Over at LiveJournal, Zoethe said that Avatar is a massiverace FAIL and her other half TheFerrett basically said that it's a beautiful movie with no actual plot, so I was totally ready to like Avatar only for the geek factor of the CG when my son and I found ourselves at the theater today. Guess what? I think that they both missed something huge here. Avatar isn't just the story of the strong white guy coming in and saving the poor natives, it's a story of a broken person finding wholeness in a new community, becoming a convert and an immigrant, and proving themselves by laying their own life on the line for their new people.
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