When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.