See here.
[H]uman beings invent to satisfy a need. …GAR is more than a feeling, but also a need to describe the feeling. [my emphasis]
Sounds pretty meta.
Kaori Sakiyama is GAR. But five years ago there were no such a term.
Yes, memes form historically-dependent socio-linguistic structures that transform their historically-independent subjects from the outside in – I quote Stuart Hall in an analogous light: “the diaspora came to me” (Morley and Chen, 1996, p. 484).
…[Blanket memes cheapen] the process of working through the thoughts and reflecting.
Well, uh, insofar as you call coburn going through 1339 words on his philosophy of GAR “meta nonsense”, it’s the same as calling 625 just-as-subjective-words nonsense. Discourse is discourse: “the process of working through the thoughts and reflecting” doesn’t discriminate against meta or non-meta, does it?
works cited:
Hall, Stuart, The formation of a diasporic intellectual from David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds.) “Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies,” New York: Routledge, 1996.