The State of the World Is Dependent on the State of Human Thought

It's so easy for us to think of these questions like, what does it mean to be meto be a human as redundant, self indulgent exercises. Heydeger would say those are all really great questions to ask, but are we sabotaging our ability to ever be able to arrive at an accurate answer to them by ignoring questions that make those questions even possible? Not only that, is it our lack of answers to these ontological questions that's responsible for creating all those problems in the first place. The state of the world is contingent on the state of human thought that came before it.