Articles and Stories We Do Not Want to Read or Edit
A memo from <em>The Atlantic</em>'s editors in 1973 is weirdly relevant today.
by Adrienne LaFrance
Jan 03, 2018
2 minutes
Before memes, before the internet, there were just regular old cliches—text and imagery recycled and adapted across media. All cliches are memes, really, though not all memes are cliches. (Until they are, and then they die, the theory goes.)
Who can remember pre-internet civilization, anyway? It’s enough of a
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