Dear Mr. Opinion,

OK, so let me try to simplify:

If one believes that the human race is on a course of meaningful progress, then one tends to be interested in studying the details of that progress, hence the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, anthropology and history.

Otherwise, as in my personal case, such an interest does not arise.

(the rest of what I wrote was just a further explanation about why my interests are different)

P.S. The idea of progress is particularly central to the Abrahamic traditions.

I always thought we were meant to live something like ....

In deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.

Life’s but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God.

The dead have all the glory of the world.

Philip James Bailey

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/we-live-deeds-not-years-thoughts-not-breaths

So upon the above, a seniors party, or really any party of any nature, is therefore quite questionable in value.