How do you function in a society where everything is going to kill you , and all you see is misdirection and lies in a society that seems to thrive on it.
How do you function in a dishonest society?
you get a function (job) for free, because each society is interested exploiting the most valuable ressource (educated humans)
anything else you have to ignore, besides in human history all societies where cruel nowadays we live in some kind of an exception,
people pretended themselves they live in a virtual reality and afterlife will be better and if they didnt kept going they would get punished in afterlife
so you could theoretically just do islam