The idea that humanity has a “purpose” while all other life forms simply exist, is a product of absurd, highly dangerous human supremacist rhetoric.
Our vain, desperate, futile and obsessive search for our elusive “higher purpose” has become a threat to all biological existence on Earth, including us. Purpose has been a dangerous concept, one easily corrupted and weaponised to support dogmatic views and the agendas of the necrosystem which have nothing to do with “purpose”, and everything to do with greed.
Yet although we may not have a purpose, we do have a destiny. As with every biological organism, humanity’s destiny is to simply coexist with, and be part of, this already wondrous and complex tapestry of life forms. We call it the “the ecosystem”, using this cold, mechanistic terminology to describe “it” in order to both detach ourselves from the rest of the creation, as well as denigrate its own sentience.
Our existential tragedy is that we failed to see ourselves as part of this tapestry, and to consider our balanced existence within it as our actual “purpose”. Such a purpose of simple coexistence seems too easy and simple for an obsessively greedy species and fails to satisfy the human supremacy narrative: that we are more than the ecosystem, that we are supposed to race past it, leave it all behind and venture into the unknown.