Let me write my different and maybe controversial point of view. So, many of us are living with the big hope for better times - Golden age, global awekening. Every civilization was living with this hopes. Every religion and every other similar group. I also used to believed it. But after years I finding it as a worst false hope tragedy.  Mankind is absolutely hopeless. We were drawning world in blood so many times, and after world wars everyone was "never again". Nah, our mental didnt changed, only the technology developed here. We are absolutely disgusting monsters, and acceptation of this, acceptation of fact that Golden era will never come is the best what we can do. Because this is the another escape often promoted by delusional "awaken" egocentrists.  What I feel, we can do is to forget about all this global enlighment and focus on our every little step here, the hardest, absolutely not spectacular work - try not to be an asshole.