> it’s pointless to just avoid participating in a meat grinder that life itself is naturally.

We've revolutionized human life over a few generations, and even more over a few hundred years. One outcome is that you can communicate freely - politically and technologically - with people all over the world. And you use that to say how pointless it is to try to improve.

Think bigger and better. People did all that work to get us to this point; what will we do? How will we pull our weight?

The only thing you have to fear is trendy contempt itself.