Why can’t we canonize Richard Dawkins as a saint?  That man is my personal hero.  And if it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t even have the meme meme—though we may have some kind of “culturgen” or some other awkward neologism that’s essentially the same thing as a meme . . . it just doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as easily (though I suppose there are worse things that could be rolling off one’s tongue).  So what if Dawkins is still alive?  What are we—the Catholic church?  These rules didn’t just fall from the sky.  Fallible humans made all this stuff up.  So we can change these arbitrary rules to suit our purposes.  That’s what memetic evolution’s all about.