When a situation looks grim, but also you're not sure exactly how things stand, you form theories that are attractive not because they are the most plausible, but because they give you something to do, and doing something is the only way not to be crushed by miasmic uncertainty and despair. Fetching water had given me a purpose. As so often happens for mortals like us, it turned out to be pointless purpose. But string enough of these together and you've got yourself a life, of sorts. We are playthings of the gods, and to provide amusement is not nothing.
-Matthew Crawford, Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control
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