Sure maybe you may care about your immediate family, I think most people feel like part of a larger super organism. You may die, but you want your family to l

Sure maybe you may care about your immediate family, I think most people feel like part of a larger super organism. You may die, but you want your family to live on successfully. That extends to society, humanoids, even abstract concepts. If Society feels like family, and you want some nebulous form of success for it, then it must continue, hopefully with an homage to us every now and then. Have you ever read the dune series? One idea of success it portrayed was populating so many planets that the spread of humanoids would always outstrip the rate at which they went extinct.