Tag: Meme
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Jackie Lavin – A Meme Girl for Irish Higher Education
Education is a complex matter while reducing it to simple soundbites is easy. Ignorance, in the pure sense of not knowing, abounds when it comes to higher education. Alas, ignorance creates memes that are powerful.
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We know little about them so stop being meme to those in mortgage arrears
This is a version of my Irish Examiner column of 10 august 2013 The Irish mortgage situation continues to bedevil both political and economic commentators. It does this in an almost complete vacuum, and as we know nature abhors a vacuum, and so this is filled with chatter and verbiage. Out of this chatter has…
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Are ministers deceiving themselves or deceiving us on the Anglo Promissory Notes?
The idea of a meme is that its a concept, a psychological or cultural trait, that propagates Like anything that propegates it can only do so if it is allowed to. Thus we have seen grow up the meme that Ireland did not pay the 3.1b which was due in March 2012 on the Anglo Irish…
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Lazy stereotropes, lazy greeks
So. The problem it seems with greece is not its unsustainable 150% debt to GDP ratio, or the habit many of its wealthier citizens have of being creative with tax. No …. its that they are lazy olive botherers who simply dont work hard enough. That lazy stereotype, a trope of the crisis, comes round every while. The greeks…