Though to what extent is the lack of purpose, focus, goal, meaning, etc, a consequence of our point of view?
Part of the problem with our culture is the focus on rights, yet society is a function of responsibilities, with rights as reward.
When this country was first being imagined, irresponsibility usually meant you starved, so it was a given that people contribute to the community.
The Tragedy of the Commons is when rights are universal and responsibilities are optional.
So if you, as a particular individual, are contributing more to the society and its environment, it gives you meaning, as a necessary part of the community.
Think in terms of a brick. If it's just laying around, it's just some hard clay, but if it's part of a wall, it it purposeful tot he rest of the wall and whatever larger function it serves.
So then we go universal and ask, what's the meaning of life in general, but do we really have the right to question all of life, just because we are seeking and not finding what we think we want?
Life is that cycle of expansion and consolidation, so if you sense you've reached the crest of the wave of your particular concept of what life should be, wouldn't that be time to step back and look at the parts that give you a sense of life, love, meaning, etc.
It's not so much I'm disagreeing, as saying there is always more to the picture.
Given our world certainly seems to be spiraling into the abyss, wouldn't that offer an opportunity to look beyond the corruption and pathologies and sense what is vital and will continue and carry on, after the dust settles.
One aspect that I sense, in terms of cultural and social evolution, we have come to see political power as having to be a form of public utility. The government, as executive and regulatory function is analogous to a central nervous system, while money and banking function as blood and the circulation system. Which remains private. Given markets need money to circulate, but those controlling this medium see it as their right to siphon off as much as they can and buy off any political control, the corruption and social pathologies are getting significant.
Would this suggest the next step will be to make banking another form of public utility?
The are lots of such problems out there. Wouldn't it give purpose to try and figure them out, in order to make human society healthier, both for itself and for the rest of the planet?
