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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
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You're probably right. I have grown up to be pretty pretentious about art, despite how little I understood it at formative years. Other people might be shaped by their experiences with it differently than I was
How the same art affects different people is an ongoing fascination of mine. I grew up using books to take my mind off of life, and I read voraciously. No one around me really had a high opinion of "art", and I didn't even really think of the books I read as art, at least not until I was an adult. As I get older I see more of the impact that art has had on my thinking and life, though it's still very much an ongoing project. Comparing my own experience of art to others' is why I love art criticism, especially "bad" earnest criticism. Even bad faith "criticism" is kind of interesting, in that it says something about the selfish worldview of the author, but I have limited stomach for it.