> We can be special and needed by others - not to society. Only because "society" is too large. For millions of years, "society" meant the same as "others", wh

> We can be special and needed by others - not to society. Only because "society" is too large. For millions of years, "society" meant the same as "others", who were a hundred or so folks in your particular band of primates. You could have a personal understanding with each one of them. Now that "society" is 7 billion anonymous people, of course you don't matter in that context. Concepts like "universal brotherhood" make no sense, because meaning and belonging don't scale.