Teow Lim Goh on the internet currency of cat pictures: "... cats are still-wild animals that depend on us for food and shelter. And it is precisely their innate wildness, bundled into small packages of cuteness residing in our homes, that make cat pictures the social phenomenon it is. The best cat pictures and jokes negotiate this tension between the wild and the domesticated... they continue to tickle our funny bone as they mock us for our inability to master their nature."
On Cat Pictures
The innate wildness of cats makes them rich fodder for internet memes....
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