" Our rich and complex inter-
national networks of production and distribution have come to
an end before, but here we are, you and I, and here is humanity.
What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress
toward some unspecified goal - the engineering and production
of more and more powerful technologies, the development of
more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if
these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the
meaning of life remains the same always - just to live and be
with other people? "

― Sally Rooney , Beautiful World, Where Are You