I honestly feel like the recent outpouring of “what is this trying to tell us” is both short-sighted and egocentric.
It is indeed egocentric, and it is just as correct. Chazal say the world was created for klal yisroel to learn and keep the torah. Everything that happens in the world is for the purpose. Indeed it is egocentric.
The gemara ?”? ? says that ????? ??? the goyim are going to come to Hashem and claim that all the things they built and did were all so we could learn torah. Hashem will call them fools. I have heard: Fools, not liars. They would not be able to brazenly lie to Hashem then. They are actually correct, it was so we would learn, but that was not their intent so they do not get schar.