The two recent challenges to the soul (the soul being the animating principle that shapes the forms of the fleshy bits and suggests things for them to do): the old Kruschevka in the country to the east, and the country to the south. Old ghosts, things of earth.
Which is not to say that things shouldn't exist. I have a sense that, in the event, every aspect of the human kaleidoscope will be necessary. Cultures and faiths of the South that seem very earthy and linked to human power might provide a necessary grounding as the technology of the developed (the term indicates the action) nations grows increasingly apart from the human form and the sort of existence that the human form has on the planet. The green party might yet prove essential.