I am listening to the CBC program Spark, they are talking about "memes" and for the life of me, I can't hear how "memes" are different from what we used to call in the olden days "ideas" that is if by "ideas" you don't distinguish between stupid and intelligent, informative and deceptive, erudite and stupid.  "Slogans" "images" etc.  . 

Clearly the word "meme" doesn't mean what it did when Dawkins invented it to try to plug a gaping chasm in his gene-selfishness theory and it was taken up by his fellow meatheads, Daniel Dennett and Susan Blackmore and pretty much no one else of any academic or alleged intellectual status.  

When I hear someone use the word I think that they're idiots who are trying to impress other idiots by using a meaningless buzzword the origin of which makes them feel all sciency and smart and up to date when it only shows they are credulous dopes.