One of my strongest beliefs is that life isn't inherently meaningful. It's us living life, making choices, writing our own stories, that gives it meaning. I don't think the universe ever intended for there to be good and bad, just a series of choices of how to shape the world to our choosing. 

    The problem is that we keep creating systems that artificially limit the amount of choices that we can make. This isn't usually a problem, choice paralysis is a thing after all, but everyone is going to come up to a situation where they have to choose between a choice that's bad, and a choice that's worse. Or maybe a clear good and bad choice, but taking the good choice means sacrificing something they care about. This was taken to such an extreme in the United States that your choices are less "Good vs. Evil" and more along the lines of "The people who are against unionizing vs. the people who are against unionizing and have spoken out against gay marriage." Is it any wonder so many of us have become so cynical?