To be rather than to meme

At Friday's meeting of the eLearning Forum at Stanford's Center for Innovations in Learning, I announced the death of a meme. This one is passeé. It morphed into cliché. The dead meme:

You've heard it here, you've heard it there; soon we're hear it everywhere. So enough already. When somebody near you rants about early failures, simply say "Dead meme." Or "That parrot won't hunt." Let's learn from our mistakes, not repeat them. Instead of grousing about the past, let's talk how we're going to make things better.

Several memes inform my reading of the net-world we knowledge workers inhabit:

1. Everything is connected.
2. Nothing is ever finished.
3. Someone will always look at things from a different perspective.
4. As Heraclitus used to say, "Everything flows."