Hatred is settled anger.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in where money is a little harder to come by things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.