SS = social status.
Those things all known life, including of course humans, NEED to perpetuate life:
- Resources (food, money, shelter, etc.)
- Security/Safety (from predation, the environment, other members of the same species)
- Reproduction/mates
These three things are universals. In socially organized species like us they can perhaps condensed into “power”, which may be simplifiable as SS.
Therefore, all laws, ideologies, philosophies and religions seem to only be about regulating/governing the distribution of resources and sex and personal security, by enforcing or giving pretexts for the respective distribution scheme.
Another idea of mine is that “vampirism” exists – “life” can be taken from others and used for expanding one’s own life:
A) Capital income/interests/dividends/profits – this is other people’s work products, a representation of their life-time, life-energy and health-time. Through capital income, the really rich people can access life energy/life time/ health time of legions of many poorer people through money, which is transferred, and therefore, in a way, their life time/life energy/health-time, too: I mean this in a very concrete, non-esoteric way – for example, a single person could never build and own and operate a huge mansion/palace/skyscraper, but through the magic of money it becomes easily possible.
B) Outright replacing failing organs with healthy ones of poorer/low-SS people through organ transplantation – this can be facilitated through money/power/SS – for example, the big business in China of harvesting prisoners or those condemned to death sentences for their organs – they are kept alive to store bodies/organs in working manner until an high-SS/-power human is in need to expand his own life through butchering other people.
C) The extraordinarily powerful health effects of high SS explained in the link above can be seen as vampirism, too, because in way those of high SS have pushed down others into lower SS and therefore kind of transfer the life- and health-span benefits of high SS from those beneath them to themselves.
I think that the purpose of life, in practical terms (ignoring the fairy-tale, made-up stuff of philosophies and religions) is very straightforward:
To kill or enslave (exploit, like in “enlightened self-interest) other people for maximal personal gain.
This is what we are actually, really, doing in life.
