It has the value of a fiction, at best a myth, or metaphor that can not be taken literally but only as a symbolic medium of representation. It is like feeding people with pictures of food, appealing to the appetite but not really nourishing. Therfore the solution comes with the development of legitimate society, which must be effected by every individual, as one would a vital function. Not just to live one lifetime as a mortal individual, serving to sustain one s personal survival, but to sustain humanity together, which has brought us into being and which is our true life, we must be intelligent, not just brutal and selfish. This effort is what is really happening, and any failure is irrelevant.
Conduct is either a positive contribution or the lack of it.
There is either more or less of it. It is humanity s business, and it is one in which we can not go out of business, nor can we fail in it. It is life, and life has no alternative. Then, from this we must realize that everything we do is part of a whole constructive effort of humanity s service to itself. There is no special way, no division of labor or office, and no new invention of the way of peace.