How to define meaning?
It will make you realize that this is
not a "fail" universe, but rather an astronomically mysterious one in which our influences stretch far beyond we can imagine, literally.
At the most minute level, everything is made of energy, which is so dynamic we are mostly unable to detect or measure it's mechanisms. We can't even figure it out because we're influencing reality and the makeup of reality
as we
try to figure it out. Things are never the same and never will be. Everything is
not constant. It is all endlessly dynamic, always moving, always changing, never the same as it was, is, or ever will be.
Only by realizing this, taking a few macro steps back from everyday life, and using the knowledge we
do have of
our influence on everything can we then determine what we are doing. We are influencing the overall energetic makeup of everything, and it is accumulating in time. This, in turn, empowers the energetic makeup of everything that exists, all that we perceive and can't perceive. We are accomplishing more than anything that ever existed before simply by existing. We can each individually influence this effect, this "empowerment" of everything to a maximum degree by accumulating maximum positive energy throughout our lives. Therefore, we each contribute to the empowerment of everything that exists, but the degree to which each of us contribute is determined by each of our
selves.
(What flagadajones discussed is true in a very, very material sense. It does not touch on the
meaning, however. But when we're talking about the actual "meaning," it has more to do with a macro ("bigger-picture") view of our influence on all that exists, not our narrow, every day lives, or role in an ancient, hunter-gatherer society. That is too narrow to even be in the
vacinity of actual
meaning.)