Not the author - but I can relate - for me most depressing is the fact that most people that I will ever meet in my life will or have already choosen (or it was chooses for them by others) a random set o high level assumptions about the life, the universe and everthing and will treat them as revealed truth.

And they will never allow anyone to disect them because it will as per quote from my old friend "destroy the meaning of life".

And by all means - I sincerlly believe we should all set our own meaning for life, just never forget that every one of us is probably wrong.