The Bee Movie and MEMEs

         Oh wow... I really went into this kinda as a joke. However, I found an important truth about how memes can destroy stories and their morals. Really, when we joke about something in excess we lose touch with the gravity of what it may have been. The Bee Movie came out in 2007. With in the last year or so it became a YouTube and Facebook meme. All kinds of stuff that really tore the film to shreds. It has gotten to the point where there are now t-shirts with the entire script on them. It has also gotten to the point now, that people have forgotten how this is a film about how the consequence of the characters actions was the destruction of some natural beauty in the world. Instead, it is now a film that you watch in seven minutes because it speeds up every time they say the word bee. In the same way, the more we joke about things that are not trivial or quizzical, the less impacting the subject of the joke becomes. An example being that when we make race jokes, we first have to remove our empathy for the subject race to some degree.