People often scoff at the sheer absurdness of memes and other forms of communication that the younger generation uses, but this stems from ignorance and fear of change. As a human the most paradoxical fear is that of change, because the only thing that has been undeniably constant since ‘the beginning’ is change. Whether we view it as good or bad is irrelevant because it brought us to where we are and will push us onward whether we wish for it or not. In relation to the decay of language, memes are a vital concept that must be dissected in order to understand the psyche of humans. Memes have been around much longer than most people think, using an seemingly senseless picture or phrase to communicate with others has been practiced since Roman…show more content… For instance, it is hypocritical to shame a generation for being too absorbed in the internet, while the criticizing generation is just as absorbed in another. Many critics think that memes and other newly popular forms of communication are primitive and a degraded form of language. Memes are not language as we know it now. Memes use vague ideas to communicate a powerful underlying message. For example, this shrek meme seems surface level and juvenile, but understanding the social circumstances and delving further into it reveals that this meme is trying to cling to the childhood ignorance that was torn away from teenagers because the world is too terrifying to cope with. The decay or betterment of the English language is immeasurable because it is a purely subjective matter of opinion. Just as we are static in our flaws, language is static in its power of communication. Although both are changing, change does not equate progress or decadence. The weaknesses and strengths of humanity cancel each other out in the end, because the amount of flaws will remain the same, but with different areas of failure. All things that ever existed on Earth are only different, not better or
