"If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species. As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth: that life's only purpose is life itself."
It was weird back then and its downright shitty now. I started a new game with all original factions and then had to start a new one (replacing hive with cybernetic consciousness) because the hive's strawman gommulism ideology is friggin garbage. But the cybernetic consciousness fits that niche much better anyway.