Couple of thoughts on Meme Corps goals and methods. Repost from LB. We were discussing whether it's feasible and/or desirable to attempt to seize /their/ symbols and repurpose them.
You mean this one? Is there a better version missing an Al Jazeera logo? Let's locate and post the one we want to use.
A skull symbolizes death.
There is simply no other widely recognized interpretation.
And recognition of this particular symbol is cross-cultural, cross-gender, cross-age.
Are the colored streams coming into or passing out of the death skull? Why?
What killed this person? Is the person still alive? Where did they get the skull? Most religious traditions bury or cremate the dead, not repurpose the skull of a loved one for an artistic purpose.
Is this image supposed to make us feel comfortable or uncomfortable?
What is its purpose?
What is its real purpose?
No I'm not demanding answers (not like some shill), just asking questions out loud.
I do not understand where you're coming from with this.
Can we think about this together?
Also a Buddhist symbol. To the Buddhists this represents a revolution of one's mind. (The 4 arms depict rotation / revolution in the sense of turning around a center pivot.) In other words the ability to change the world, not by external change, but by changing our response to the world.
That breddy-gud meaning was also coopted when the symbol became widely associated with Nazi Germany. Can the Buddhists bring their symbol back and demand that people's minds no longer associate it with Nazi Germany? I don't think so. Maybe in a few generations. Not while World War II still resides in memories of living individuals.