What is the point of it? That luminously bleak question emerges from the mist whenever the lustre of each new technology begins to wear off. We do not find ourselves newly adrift in a new world beyond meaning and purpose. We are still adrift in the old world, where meaning never existed. Why should you not then merrily improvise on the theme of your own delusions whatever they are? Do you need a reason? If so, fine: let that be your delusion.