Is it possible the MBTI is being used as a meme?

This was just a thought I recently had. Is it possible that the MBTI and socionics could be used as a meme, which if you don't know what this is.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme.

Is it possible that this is just a meme, used to perpetuate society in certain ways? To drive the formation of "individual classes"? I am not saying that the experiment and research was a meme, but that the possibility exists that "societal architechts" would use such a thing and the globalization and speed of ideas now-a-days to perpetuate these classes?


just a thought.
btw i dont know where this goes.

Anything specific that is popular is just a meme. The word meme does not imply an agenda. Also, I think that there is no agenda behind MBTI, except for the obvious one of making cash by selling books.

I can't figure out why I abhor the term meme so much...

Originally Posted by il duce

Is it possible that this is just a meme, used to perpetuate society in certain ways? To drive the formation of "individual classes"? I am not saying that the experiment and research was a meme, but that the possibility exists that "societal architechts" would use such a thing and the globalization and speed of ideas now-a-days to perpetuate these classes?

Possible, sure. Probable, I doubt it. There are also consulting services that some may sell that is part of a capitalistic consumerist culture we have now.

So, while I am acknowledging that the possibility exists, I have great doubts that the originators of MBTI would understand how far its use would spread and thus didn't intend for some of today's consequences.

it's failing if it is

Why can it be considered a meme? Most of the other things you would consider memes are a lot more well known.