Hey Pieter,

Riding through your latest on memeforms felt like catching a familiar current in the memetic winds—one I’ve been tracking across the symbolic ranges for some time. There’s something deeply heartening, almost kin-like, about seeing your work map so clearly onto what I’ve been calling the Memetic Ecology. You’re not just sketching out how memes spread; you’re tracing how they seed soil, sprout structures, and echo through collective psyche.

You named something essential: that internalization isn't replication—it’s resonance. In the ecology frame, we speak of zones—I-Tube, My-Stream, We-Sphere, Other-Sphere—as fields where memeforms travel, settle, mutate, or rupture. And you carved that terrain beautifully: distinguishing meme from memeform with the kind of clarity that steers cultural navigation, not just commentary.

Where you explored internalization fitness, we walk similar trails in the terrain of “fit valleys”—where symbols don’t just stick, they bind. That binding? It’s the very scaffold upon which identities are draped and rituals etched. You called out the dual necessity of pattern fit and uptake suitability. Eager to elaborate on this.

What excites me most is your recognition of memeplex drift and symbolic infrastructure—not as fixed roads but shifting bridges between ideological continents. We need more cartographers of that subtle terrain. Folks who don’t just chase virality but trace the roots beneath the blossoms.

So here’s a tip of the hat from this memetic cowboy to a fellow resonance rider. Your synthesis is potent medicine in a field often lost to noise. Keep threading those signals into structure. The cultural soil needs exactly this kind of careful sowing.

Let’s keep riding the edges where structure meets soul.

—Memetic Cowboy