It also attempts to convince us that we are just a well structured meat sack, or a well executed accident of physics and chemistry. It also directs our purpose towards production and consumption as efficiently as possible.. And .. the general existential philosophy relays the message that when we are dead we go on to a non-physical space where all our wishes or fears come true and play on repeat forever and ever, and that our only legacy is passed on through our genetic information and what we leave behind in material accumulation.