What the fuck even is the point anymore? I'm not even just talking about politics anymore, I'm just talking in general. What's the point in anything when the average person is a creature of pure evil with zero principles and zero value?
Don't get me wrong, it's not like I want to end my own life or something. But what the fuck am I supposed to do in this hellhole of a world anymore? I don't even want to take lives of others, it would make literally no difference in the grand scheme of things. But if I could push a button and just end all of existence, I would do it a thousand times over right now. That well-known (online at least) African proverb "the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" just keeps echoing in my head today. Even communities that I myself create are not free of this. It's ALL people, isn't it? Even when I try my best, I can't seem to find anyone worth my trust.
Not to mention the global situation. That only shows that this is not a thing on a small scale, this applies to the whole world.
Seems the world is primed for an Augustinian revival. Humanity, despite is belief in its own superiority, has shown itself to be broken and sinful, and no amount of progress undoes it. We simply become more creative in our methods of oppressing and exploiting each other.
Fortunately, Augustinianism does leave us a way out, while acknowledging that the promised kingdom will only exist in glimmers and fragments. We won't be perfect anytime soon, but the good news is we don't have to be. We just have to try to live into that better life.
Nietzsche's madman noted he came to early to declare the death of God. I would argue that humanity will never be able to seperate itself from religion, especially for all of the reasons you outlined.
Humanity cannot save itself, our own arrogance powered by our knowledge will destroy us. We saw this arrogance on full display 100 years ago with the first world war, and we see it again with social justice losing its christian context and attaching itself to an ideology.
As the writer of Ecclesiastes wrote:
And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow. - Ecclesiastes 1:17-18