My "sadness" is strictly rhetorical. I consider the majority of mankind players in a huge comedy play, both absurd and poignant, provided for my enjoyment, with many laughs and many lessons. It might have been written and directed by Twain.
(What else can one think of a race of beings who are wrong in almost everything they believe and spend most of their time killing and harming each other for the sake of those beliefs.)
You cannot take both life and mankind seriously unless you are also insane.
Hank