The human puzzle

Will we ever know how it really works? The group and the individual? Geography, history, genes and genetics? What makes us who we are and what do we mean by "we" anyway? Maybe if I could just understand one thing, eg, the human propensity for violence I would be satisfied...
But that's the problem, these things can't be understood in isolation. in order to understand violence you must understand emotion, compassion, economics, oppression and we're back to society and individuals...Why are the social sciences divided then? Hell why are any subjects divided? Isn't art the closest we've come to understanding any of this? It really is a pzzle, g-d's rubrix cube, and then we have to start asking about the implications of that metaphor...

But the biggest question I really want to answer right now, is with all the giant unanswered questions in the world and history speeding along as if in a race with itself how are we supposed to stay inspired by all the technicalities, the essential minutae that make up all the small, peety moments of life and work? How do we believe that writing the same exact thing in a slightly different way for the 10th time, is really more important than , say staring into space?

How can we be satisfied with small compassion when the world is waiting to be saved and how can be convinced that this moment and this one and this is one is society and history in the making?