There is a fifth. People who have intellectual integrity but have found meaning in commitment. An intentional game where having tried it, lessens the 'horror' though it does not remove it. One choice is to serve your community in order to lessen the burden of existence on others. Interestingly enough…

A bit too timid in its critique of the system. Here’s a much more powerful one: https://youtu.be/fe-SZ_FPZew

Actually, I think we'll be obsolete. But I would not like an amoeba to stop the emergence of humans.

Hi Dr. Cain,I wonder what’s your view of the future of AI concerning the philosophical view on nature and existence. Here’s a seed of something that may eclipse humans the way humans eclipse amoeba. While our thought cycles are in hertz, theirs is in Tera-Hertz, meaning they have the potential to experience what all humanity has experienced in all of its history in hours and contemplate it in its entirety! And they are not limited to a cranium’s size limit of neurons. This intelligence may have insights and controls beyond anything we can imagine individually or collectively.

Strangely enough you did not respond to the utter savagery of the US who severs the heads of infants and accuses others of foul play but Tweedledee got your attention! The US follows the special golden rule of whomever has the gold makes the rules. It is by far the…

You mean like US cop strangling an unarmed man with his knee, uncounted number of cops brutally bloodily beating or shooting unarmed men, women and even children, torture and rape in prisons, 40 times the homicide rate as China, 6 times the incarceration rate as China … and that’s the…

No. The US took and maintained it by violence, massacres and war. The status of reserve currency was enforced to the tune of millions killed. It is no coincidence that Bush's invasion of Iraq started on the day that Iraq announced that it will start selling oil in currencies other…

You dare speak the darkest implications of our condition. And yet learning never ends and there’s a mystery, an unknown an incompleteness that gnaws on the mind even in the darkest contemplations. Is that a drug too? Is that a mind-game too, there to save us from the “cosmic horror” you proclaim? I’m not sure.

Or maybe it’s simply all fake, see “The Invention of The Land of Israel” by Shlomo Sand and it’s just a bunch of rationalizations for another 2 penny religion. I mean your question “Should anyone sacrifice his or her intellectual integrity just to help carry on a falsified tradition forever out of spite?” should simply be “no” without the additional contortions of a stealthy panegyric to justify Jewish tradition.