Futility versus positivity

To feel a purpose, a reason in times of such universal upheaval and human suffering . What is the question here? Was it always so, or is suffering greater now. Or is there a universal awareness of the failing of our systems that is coming to some sort of crescendo? 
Then we reach. We reach out for the moments. We reach out for each other. In the face of it all, we must keep building and resting on the true systems - that of community.