"If there is one indisputable fact about the human condition it is that no community can survive if it is persuaded--or even suspects--that its members are leading meaningless lives in a meaningless universe."

--Irving Kristol

This quote is powerful to me, because it's so very true. If people are under the idea that they are living meaningless lives in a meaningless universe, than all hope is gone and therefor productivity is thrown completely out the window. With out a purpose, we will eventually die out because we serve no valid job on this planet and life has a way of removing those unneeded. I understand that this quote is much like the Apology, for it's meaning is to question but not to fall into despair. You need to feel important and needed to want a place in this world without that we would just wither away.