no , not in the land of smiles , nor anywhere else -- other societies and their institutions of camouflaged savagery , for that matter -- do humans want to know what they really are : the material aspirations and the fear of not having anything out of a life that make two people cling to each other for better and not for worse and have children , if they can have children , if the man in slapping his wife does not cause a miscarriage that maims her from ever having them in the future ( in developing countries like this one , the poorer they are the more venal the motivation as children exist for the purpose of taking care of the elderly parents , and the wealthier they are the more those children are a status symbol and an ongoing extension of themselves ) ; the fear of loneliness , especially in advancing years and diminishing physical attractiveness that causes a man to stay with his loud harridan , his ugly lizard ; the scurrying around to make money , some more , some less , but scurrying to ground a life that will eventually blow away like dust nonetheless ( inane abstractions in unwieldy written symbols of language his only means of possibly transferring some minute aspect of himself into the future , and of course his bequest more times than not rejected ) ; those smiles and that warm congeniality that he projects onto others , especially those in his line of business in the prospect of gain , with the more extroverted more eagerly complaisant , calling everyone a friend as there might be some point in which those scarcely known friends might be of some use to him ; a nondescript life used up as a social function of diminutive , even miniscule , unmeasurable significance that in consort assists contemporary , temporary man , and nothing more , paid , if he is lucky enough , money to sustain a comfortable existence , but when declared effete at sixty five and retired , knowing unequivocally , that beyond his ejaculate , he has contributed nothing of permanence into the world ( even the roman emperor claudius no longer having presence and his histories no longer extant in the world78never was , tacitus annals of imperial rome79having lost sections or gained redactions , is merely a half reality in human existence , and after human existence he will be nothing , and king ramkamhaeng with his supposed likeness on a grassy mound in the center of the university accredited as having formed the written language of thai although this is completely erroneous , so the image that is revered is not really ramkamheang himself ) ; and all denying impermanence , so as to pursue roles and personal functions that will make them feel solid and omnipotent , and happy for a time .