It's called epistemology. The study of knowledge and how it's acquired and more.
Anti Meme
We're the anti-meme community where the joke is that there isn't one, and by explaining that, we've ruined the whole thing, but we all find the collective misery hilarious.
The music of comedy is more important than the joke itself.
Follow the instance rules please, this is a lovely instance.
Ah yes... the ol' Wittgenstein approach!
The bastard rolled up his sleeves, said "hold this" laterally handing someone his mug of Weiss Hefeweizen, and proceeded to forge a theoretical analysis of theory itself! To boil his work into just one VERY lo-res sentence.
Ah yes, Academic Ethnography.
... Any Grand Strategy / 4X type game where you can research a tech, where the main result is that it grants a permanent buff to the rate at which you conduct research.
Also, this reminds me of the Civ 4 quote, read by Leonard Nimoy, for researching Bureaucracy:
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
Have begun.