Science is not distinguished from myth by science being literally true and myth only a type of poetic analogy. While their aims are different, both a… - John N. Gray

The true goal of the bourgeois life, in other words, is not self-enactment, but diversion. Most people need the organised distraction of work (if they can find it). Idleness - the life of the playboy who doesn't answer the phone - is simply too demanding.

The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing.

If our universe is one of many, unlike others in containing observers like ourselves, there is no need to posit a designer. Most universes will be too chaotic to allow the emergence of life or mind. In that case, the fact that humans exist in this universe needs no special explanation