>>520380616
But in remote posterity, for the kids of our kids of our kids etc. etc., like ten to twenty generations from now, will live to enjoy, once again, those normal kinds of lives that civilized, i.e. farming, peoples had for ten millennia or so before the middle of the 20th century. And these distant progeny of ours will be content. And their contentment is the best we can hope for in our lifetimes, since we simply cannot live long enough to see that new age for ourselves.
The best we can do is help smooth the breakdown and downfall of our ultra-modern (way too modern) industrial civilization, so that the breakdown of life as we know it can be as unpainful, or can involve the last amount of pain, as is possible. However, there will be tremendous suffering anyway no matter how good we do to stymy the worst possible consequences of a dying civilization, for example a full-blown nuclear exchange.
What we do in this life, indeed echoes in eternity. So long story short, the best you can do is help set up our remote progeny for the decent, contenting lives they will be blessed with.
We ourselves cannot have normal lives in a normal society, but we can help those who come after us enjoy all these things. And that is the only realistic thing on offer to us to provide our own lives with meaning and purpose: to smooth the way to the return of normal civilization while hyper-modernity breaks down and causes all kinds of hell in its death throes. Live for those who will come after us, which, in itself, is a rejection of our current world and its ways, since this world is all about self-interest and disregarding whatever doesn't involve one's present level of pleasure or pain.