Of course there is more than one direction the life”s path can lead. Just because much of earth’s modern civilization has evolved under the influence of seriously selfish kleptocratic parasites doesn’t mean that the world view, and circumstances, imposed on the members of ‘civil’ societies and the planet at large can’t be transformed and transcended. All that is required is to take an element of what is officially told to be a truth that can’t be challenged, and challenge it. You pick the truth.