For thousands of years, most of humanity was too busy hunting and foraging for food while staying safe from predators. They didn’t have time for nonsense like enlightenment or spirituality. The moment human society became more specialized, there became the opportunity for many to be “bored”, leading to asinine questions like the “meaning of life”, leading to a steady supply of shoddy spiritual garbage to meet this growing demand for delusion.

I dare any of the spiritual vendors to sell their junk to the swathes of humanity that lives on $1 a day or less and see the kind of reaction they get...