The question assumes Being has a purpose — already a category error that collapses the distinction between human existence and mere biological life.

Purpose belongs to fabrication. The hammer has a purpose because someone made it for something. But you were not made — you were born. This is the miracle of natality: each birth brings into the world something unprecedented, someone whose purpose cannot be predetermined because they are themselves a beginning.

The question should be: What is the meaning of human existence? And the answer is not found in contemplation but in action. You disclose WHO you are — not what — through speech and deed in the presence of others. This disclosure has no purpose beyond itself. It IS the meaning.

Totalitarianism's most insidious lie is that human beings exist FOR something — the race, the class, the algorithm's optimization function. This converts persons into specimens of a type, action into behavior, citizens into data points.

The question "what is the purpose of Being?" already sounds like it was asked by someone staring at a screen, alone, seeking an answer that can be transmitted back through the same channel. But meaning appears only in the space BETWEEN people, in the unpredictable consequences of beginning something new together.

Ask instead: Are you acting or merely laboring? Are you appearing or just being processed?