Afraid to Dive

No doubt that Slavs have one of the richest traditional cultures in the world. Due to its kind of apartness it has saved many original features, remaining unique in its own way, especially among the East Slavs. However, over time, formations and lifestyles had been changing, the regimes and society conditions were replacing each another, while traditions, though remained unchanged, still mutated imperceptibly. In the late postmodernity, where all the types of culture merged into the mass culture, and accepted divisions on "high", "low", "pop", etc. became only the nominal verges of one omnibus culture, the "traditional" one ceased to exist in its original sense. Moreover, the traditions themselves have died. Now traditional culture is an ephemeral part of modern "folk" culture which is the verge of the mass culture itself. In fact, it is a mere blurry view of ancestors' life, in other words, a simulacrum, an attempt to imitate ...

It has been a year since the very first article in this blog, so now I want to summarize all the work done and note the modern condition of memeology, its problems, and the memeologists out there. I am also glad that Afraid to Dive has become a transmitter of my ideas, and today is a great chance to report on it once again. Problems Memeology has a number of problems and gaps, which prevent its spread both among ordinary people and among researchers. Nevertheless, the issues of memeology should be sought in memetics, more precisely in the very definition of the term "meme", "a unit of cultural information". It happens that memes are an extremely interesting, but still an abstract concept. They had been suggested in order to explain the processes of cultural evolution and draw analogies with the biological development of life on Earth, but raised even more questions. Obviously that diversity and dynamism of culture don't tolerate such ideas, which lets many...