Solution

The basic problem of philosophy (from Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Plato) has been the mixture (often confused) of cause and effect. Past and present, to be exact -- future has no meaning. Time flows like a river (sage Heraclitus said); life is a long wretched stretch out of which we seek to extricate ourselves (thus Plato). So what do we do?

I have a solution: we kill ourselves. End it all. Who needs it anyway?