Excellent points.
I couldn't agree more about religion. Nietzsche was not optimistic when he pronounced "God is dead."
We're husks for ideologies -- and it's not like we have control oover these ideas, they have control of us.
Ostensibly, people will get fulfillment by reading classics or other great works of literature (the bible too perhaps) and be inspired to be heroic in this bleek world. For me it started by running every single day until I reached 30 miles straight. Everyone has somewhere they can improve--I just hope we get the intrepidness to chase that feeling again.
Or we could just keep yelling at peopleover social media.