>>5
Survival is what all life seeks, but what happens when life no longer has to struggle to survive? Humans, at least those of us in the developed world, have mastered survival to the point where we no longer have to spend time/energy in order to survive.... even if we refused to ever work again (and many do), society would still provide for us. Survival is no longer a "goal" since it's practically impossible to fail. Humans need goals to keep us focuses. If you have to struggle to survive, then every day you don't die is a victory. What happens when this struggle is removed? We become bored and we lack purpose... we become confused and don't know what we're supposed to be doing. What are we supposed to be doing, anyway? We create hobbies & institutions & pastimes & religions, just because we're bored. Humanity is bored because there's nothing we have to do anymore. Now we need to figure out what, if anything, we want to do. Everything we've created lately was just a product of our boredom; some people kill boredom by solving "problems" with technology but every problem solved just makes life even easier and makes us even more bored. Maybe there is a purpose to this; maybe we are building something as a species without even knowing it. Maybe we are becoming something. Or maybe we are just killing time until we die.