What do you do with yourself? What purpose or purposes of living would you choose?
It is my contention that many solvable problems are not solved because the people controlling the discussion NEED those problems not just to keep political power, but for a sense of purpose.
Poverty, for example: two parent homes, sound money, free markets. Done. After a time, even two parent homes would not be needed.
Global Warming: nothing but the umpteenth resurgence of Malthusianism (aka Dismalism), trotted out because it serves an EMOTIONAL need on the part of many, which in no small measure is the need for centralized control and the “freedom through unfreedom” it implies, itself a Meaning System constructed by imbeciles.
This is where atheism is vastly inferior both scientifically and existentially. It is inferior scientifically because it uses a 19th century world view as its model. People were shoveling coal into train cars when this world view took hold, and cars had not yet been invented. Indians roamed the American South, and buffalo herds could be seen to the horizon.
Existentially because you remove from the table all possible purposes which cannot be found within a single lifetime. Practically, what are left are engagement with work, estheticism, and “changing the world”. But it is my contention that all tend to acquire an unhealthy dose of fanaticism, precisely because on a deep emotional level they have rejected free will, meaning of any transcendent sort, and connection of more than an animal nature (perhaps disguised as congenial intellectual compatibility). We are talking animals, and animals themselves are merely cleverly constructed biological machines. It is a dismal world view.
All poorly constructed Meaning Systems should be viewed merely as facades, as shells, as plastic on the outside, and nothing on the inside. I have room for countless viable and good Meaning Systems, but any which fosters compulsions which squelch genuine curiosity, which become ends in themselves, should be discarded after careful analysis.
Problems exist to be solved. They do not exist to pull us away from our existential, spiritual work. The formation of true, authentic meaning is a problem, and it can be solved. I can’t solve it for you, but I can point to failures. And do, often.