Random thought

I saw a post by an 18 year-old on a blog somewhere labeled...what is the purpose of life. I loved it. I also had those wonderings....around this age if not before. 18 is not too young to ask it, but its most certainly too early to understand the answer.

I'm more than double this persons' age, and I still don't have it. I've been playing with the idea that humanity has placed upon it the task of finding Truth through experience. Humans turn energy into information. I sit on my chair, burning a small amount of calories, typing information into this page. Energy->Information. As I place information and communicate it, these are disseminated into Memes, small atomic ideas that may or may not have context.

As these memes are disseminated through the consciousness of humanity, for lack of a better term, they either survive or die based on their experiential merits. But is that it? Does humanity keep the "true" memes, or do we follow whatever meme is communicated loudest?

I'm optimistic. If humans were lambs following the loudest voice, Hitler would have succeeded. The West wouldn't not be predominant. China wouldn't have to limit its citizens' information flow. These memes are powerful, they're honed over human history, and resisting them is futile.

I see America as a provider of the Freedom Meme. We penetrated the curtain in Iraq, and we have our blood in the soil. Its not clear as if we should have occupied, but taking out tyranny? That is something I am for. The best way to do it, of course, is in a cold war containment method. Since these radical governments cannot get the best memes, due to their censorship, their economies do not generally work. Thus they are doomed, and it is the West that must determine with great skill how to complete the conversion of the world away from tyranny and to a world of freedom and opportunity.