If we had a society where people could educate themselves/be educated for 20 years, work for 20 years, have a vocation for 20 years, it might be a better world.

If we had a society where people could educate themselves/be educated for 20 years, work for 20 years, have a vocation for 20 years, it might be a better world. Presently such a lifestyle is available only to a minority in our society. You can't advocate such a thing more universally without being labeled a Fascist (Service Guarantees Citizenship!) or a Communist. Those ideologies certainly are problematic but they did offer a higher ideal to the people. Many people in Western society feel bored, miserable and lost. That's what is behind many of these conversions to Islam. It is first and foremost, a crisis of higher purpose and if it cannot be turned to a productive output it will likely metathesize into something worse.