One thing to remember here is that BNW was a book written by one guy; it's not a reliable look into a possible future timeline, it's just one person's idea of i

One thing to remember here is that BNW was a book written by one guy; it's not a reliable look into a possible future timeline, it's just one person's idea of it. I'm pretty sure there have been primitive societies (small villages, etc.) in the past that lived collectively and didn't require having a whole class of citizens to "look down on" to stay stable, so I don't accept this as a necessary component of a stable society. It does seem that some people feel better this way when they're in a bad position, which is why we have a lot of racism (e.g. poor white people want to be able to look down on black people) but it's a non-sequitur that a society requires this. As for a "higher purpose", what kind of higher purpose do we have in our current society? Perhaps trying to make it better somehow (by various measures of "better"), with better technology, medical science, etc.? I'm not sure why a BNW society wouldn't have these as well. There's always room for improvement. BNW's society did seem overly stifling as far as creativity and such, but I don't really see why that's necessary in that society either.