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Maybe you're thinking racing boxcars and drinking is a baseless existence, but to that I'd say: well, what's the purpose of your life then? Look deep enough into whatever it is you love, and you'll find the black nothing at the bottom too.
The answer is perhaps the same for us here at the end of history as it was for our ancestors millions of years ago at the beginning: to live well, to live quietly, and to die without too much of a fuss. And if we are very, very lucky, to love properly at least once. But we are clever. We find distractions.
