I'm confused. Have you never seen long-term goal directed behavior?
I'm not sure, maybe, but more of a problem here is to select your goals. The choice seems to be arbitrary, and as far as I can tell, human psychology doesn't really even support having value systems that go deeper than that "lip service" + conformism state.
But I'm really confused when it comes to this, so I thought I could try describing my confusion here :)
ITT we talk about whatever.