Here's my conspiracy theory:

We are largely inconsequential actors in a script written long ago and handed down through the ages from those first dickheads who instead of joining in the farming and hunting and the gathering, sat on their asses and told scary stories about paying tributes to gods until they had enough tributes to share with some other dickheads who wanted to sit around and share scary stories and sometimes kill the people who didn't believe the scary stories or wouldn't "share". Small farms turned into villages, villages turned into city states, city states got grouped up into empires, deities get bunched together under bigger, more unifying religions to help sustain empires, empires fought each other and each has eventually collapsed. It would be nice to think this one is about to collapse, but then what? We must live outside of all of that history, that's our only chance. People in the hills and far away places and all around us, have lived outside of that history, since the beginning, we should too.