Don't believe me? There is cultural theory to back it up. Wait, where are you going... Seriously though, as Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and ethologist who coined the word "meme" said, ...

“Meme” is a term coined by the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins to apply epidemiology to the world of ideas. A meme is a thought-virus. Meme theory leaps over such questions as “Is it true?” or “Is it ...