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For the record, Meme Theory has lost traction as a science. [Example] (http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2005/vol9/edmonds_b.html).
There are also a lot of issues in which "Memes" only work as metaphors for "ideas" and "signs" in a semiotic sense. In that way, it should only work within theories of literature. But it doesn't because the Humanities are kind of closed off from scientific communities and vice versa. (This is a different case for Japan. See this book for example. Another academic decided to concentrate on the relationship between literature and science with the novelist Kobo Abe. Kojima has repeatedly cited Abe as an influence on the Metal Gear Solid series).
On the other hand, Meme Theory evolved--so to say--into other areas like "Network Theory" and the digital humanities. Franco Moretti concentrates on a theory of literature that approaches it from a Darwinist and Evolutionary perspective. In all seriousness, narratives and "literature" are what MGS2 are about.