A common thought finally hit me today must be getting that age. The thought pop out in my end randomly today, that everything we do is really just an excuse to keep our minds busy for our inevitable end.
We create all this distraction from hobbies, jobs, family, technology, entertainment, science and religion to keep our minds occupied. We invented money to buy us more time to be occupied.
It is like the whole thing is just a fidget spinner.
Curious how you approach this?
Some of what you mentiond is just bread 'n circuses to keep you deliberately distracted from what’s important
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
and much of the rest is just infantilization
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
Living with purpose and helping others provides meaning.