Memes on my mind

Blogging. It's basically the same thing as walking around town speaking your mind out loud.

Most of the time people just ignore you or dismiss you as a muttering nut because they have other things to do like get to work, pick up the kids, go to a movie...You know? Stuff to do?

But every now and then you'll say the right to tick off the right guy just at the right moment and you'll end up exchanging ideas.

Meme theory. (Dawkins)

Meme theory states or hypothesizes that we (as in conscious sentient humans) don't REALLY exist. That consciousness is a trick and that the only things that really exist are ideas. And all we do is reproduce and pass on Ideas. A meme is a memory gene, basically one of these ideas. So a taste is a meme (hot sauce), a sound is a meme (ting!), a smell is a meme (flowers). Anything that can be encapsulated as an individual experience of one of the senses is a meme. But so are ideas like Liberty, Love, Hope, Anger etc etc.

So we go around processing memes and we pass on the ones we like and discard the ones we don't (unless we hate them, then we pass them on with a 'negative' attached to make other people hate them too). Good ideas survive, bad ones usually disappear.
A survival of the fittest of sorts.

So, what is blogging? I suppose it's the next evolutionary phase in meme processing. Is 'blogging' as a meme in itself one that will survive? Well, we still have nuts walking around town muttering to themselves and probably always will so I suppose so. Is it worthwhile? Beyond reviewing films and songs and books and other materials of intellectual consumption I think it is. Will it ever lead to some sort of global consciousness? I doubt it. Most conscious people with an agenda rarely rely on talking out loud to random passers by as a valuable method in which to get their points across and affect change.

It's fun to rant though. Especially when you can do it with an assumed personality.