Ideology Pie

I recently had a falling out with one of my most favorable ideologies lately. Until recently I have been a strong proponent of the view that the entirety of human civilization can be explained by describing it a large informational system, and the quickest way to improve our status as beings in the universe is to naturally improve our bodies' ability to process and store information. The conclusion of the ideology is that humans our most remarkable creations, computers, must merge and create a new post-human species that has capabilites that far exceed that of homo sapiens. My falling out occured when I read an article in Discover magazine regarding just this line of thinking and how simplifying the whole concept really is. To describe the world with the over-arching definition of an "informational system" is the same as describing the world as being "intelligently designed." It doesn't get at the essence or truth behind anything, it is just a phrase that is easily adaptable to vague and argumentative mind-masturbation that makes intellecutals in America feel very accomplished for engaging in. I was numbered among these intellectuals until very recently. I realized that my ideologies, past and present, tended to constrain my thinking even though I thought I was being progressive. Any time I assumed that someone else was ignorant of the truth, I was really being ignorant of another perspective. Actions that seem absolutely insane and uninformed from my created perspective suddenly seem reasonable when I think about what must be going through the other person's head. As crazy as it sounds, the guy standing in the park probing dog turds for sign of extraterrestrial life isn't being weird on purpose, he's simply interacting with the world in the way that his mindset dictates. He might be insane, but through the lens of insanity dog shit is the gateway to eternal happiness, he simply needs to discover the keys to the spaceship hidden in the digested dinner of a Welsh corgie. My point is, people who are insane are simply reacting to the world as they see it, as are children and people high on drugs. The rest of us, the majority of us, who walk around the world with the burdens of self-actualization and forethough tend to categorize the world so that it makes sense to us.
I am not about to pop you with the announcement that I have become a Zen Bhuddist or anything like that. Zen can be just as constraining to one's mind as the teachings of fanatical sects of Islam or the ramblings of an undernourished cult leader in northern Arkansas. Smart people like to figure shit out, and in the process of trying to figure shit out I have become an extremely cynical, self-centered, and judgemental person. What about the world did this to me? Probably Burger King advertising and the hypnotizing layout of Toys R' Us, but there is a bit of blame that can be attributed to my own choices as to what I occupy my thoughts with. I am on the fast track to hypocrisy and I haven't even been elected to office yet.
Where's the snake oil, you're probably wondering. When is he going to offer his explaination, his "true path?" When is he going to create his new Scientology, when is he going to open the doors of heaven for a small membership fee? No, none of that. I won't be providing answers for any of you dirty apes, I'm going to go drink a beer on the porch and look for something else to occupy my mind with that doesn't involve being an intellectual dickhead all the time.