There is a genuine soul-enriching point to human existence which doubles as the reason for society (individual humans acting together in a community) to exist. I'm convinced that an inability to understand this reason is why all civilizations inevitably collapse.
The entire point of human and societal existence is to conquer all of the universe. We are in something of a video game, and the single long-term goal is either exploring all of the universe after which we discover the creator by ourselves, or enough of the universe that the creator decides that we deserve his revealing himself to us.
How do I know this?
It is implicit in the existence of everything. In:
i. The naturalness of human curiosity and exploration.
ii. The boringness of existence without definite goals.
Once you solve your basic problems around things like food, clothing and shelter, what else is there to do? What might it be that humans are supposed to do?
Spending all of our time seeking personal pleasure clearly doesn't work. It leads nowhere. And, at its nadir, leads to cultural degeneration and eventual civilizational collapse.
It makes total sense. Think about it.
The only way to prevent civilizational collapse is to never allow the correct kind of culture degenerate. To ensure which, you need to forever uphold it. Which is impossible without continual long-term goals. What is the ultimate long-term goal?
Exploring and conquering all of the universe.
The huge distance between everything in the universe and the expected lifespan of the universe both entirely make sense within that context.
"Wow. All of that is insane. How do you even know that a creator exists in the first place?"
It is obvious that a creator more powerful than us created the universe.
The usual kind of people who believe that they are smart like to make easy counterarguments to argue against God with the straw man of Abrahamic religions and similar poor conceptions of God and smirk at having defeated arguments about the existence of God.
Abrahamic conceptions of God are obviously very weak. Maybe there are better ones?
The obvious argument for the existence of a creator is that we have no other explanations for how things come into being other than that they were created by someone or something. Since we have no other explanations for things coming into being, it is only reasonable to accept the only one that we do have to be true.
Hence the most reasonable assumption we can make is that a creator of the universe does exist.
Our world is very clearly a programmed environment. There are consistent rules to how things work (which we continue to discover and call 'Physics'), and certain limits (limit to the speed to light, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) to ensure that the entire environment remains stable no matter what we do.
It's all very simple.
"But but.. the big bang"
If a 3 year-old human child can set up falling dominoes and know what will happen, why then isn't it possible that the creator of our world can make what we refer to as 'the big bang' or a precursor/several precursors to it happen knowing that 'intelligent life' ends up created at some point in the process?
If a creator created us, who then created our own creator?
Given that we can only operate based on knowledge that exists within our own world, it is hard, and maybe impossible to answer that question. And it is maybe possible that we come to develop very good theories about that the more we understand about our own world in the future.
Once you understand that there is a concrete goal which human society is supposed to pursue, it becomes easy to solve several other problems which humans currently pretend are difficult.
The failure to understand the point of existence is what leads people down false paths and focus on all of the catastrophic ideologies which are contemporarily popular or becoming increasingly popular.
Essentially, there is a concrete goal to be pursued and every single human who is part of society really is a team member with different strengths and weaknesses who has to work on helping achieve the ultimate goal.
Understanding this makes it a lot easier to answer the usual questions around how to run society.