I fully agree with your first statement 100% but I fear others might take themselves too seirously, but you're wrong about the second, and Cyril is much closer to the truth.
I've lived long enough and seen enough stupidity to realise that most of what goes on is total bullshit and I and people like me are totally irrelevant, except perhaps in this particular country at General elections. But even that cannot be said for a lot of them
I don't really care about much any more, except myself and keeping my family safe, and that is proving harder than most for purely personal reasons. So much of what I believed in over the years just turned to shit anyway. It alwasy does.