thoughts from a cheap motel

Entropy is obviously real, as all things do meet their end. Life on this world is nothing but impermanence. Yet the personal need and want for survival contradicts this. But how to go about such a thing?
Might cannot make right, as the law of the jungle is never not self-destruction, eventually. War is unequivocally wrong. In singular terms, a physical mentality can generally hope for little more than the life of a laborer, discounting military or criminal pursuits. If might does not make right, then what does? Reason? That is demonized too readily, and beginning quite early on, in our programing. Faith? That is more of a coping mechanism than anything else, and it certainly does not pertain to literal survival, as survival is very much a physical thing. Which would also again rule out Reason.
If whatever compels us to endure our lives are in fact relatable to Reason and/or Faith, then these are introverted agents of the psyche. Faith in its purest and most useful form is a very personal thing, useless in affecting those around us. Reason can be utilized as a tool for managing one's own sanity, or for better understanding the world around us in the broadest sense imaginable, but Reason cannot unto itself ensure daily survival in any typical extroverted existence.
If nothing lasts, and if nothing is truly important in the physical world (regardless of beliefs, you cannot take it with you), and if physical survival is ultimately impossible for fragile and finite beings such as we, then the only survival that matters is the construction and development of one's own psyche. Only in explorations of pure consciousness do we come closest to a sense of timelessness. Ambition and pride are distractions then, nothing less than vain attempts at masquerading one's physical survival for something more meaningful.
Aside from sex, no meaning exists to be found in the physical. Real meaning can come only from the internal then, not external. Individuality, as a virtue, by my definition is not the assertion of the individual upon others, it is the separation of the individual from others.

(and of course, I am still not working.)