To help others enjoy the sand.
"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys" this was a quote a heard many years ago so it can be applied to all humans,
it doesn't rhyme the same if you change the quote

I am digging in the dirt and sifting through the sand... seeking truth and answers to human conflict.

I love this analogy, I've had a similar outlook since I was a child and as I've grown I've found very few escape the adolescent sensitivities that help shape our adult minds.

I think I would be the kid walking around the edges of the sand box. I don't like spiders, and find myself people watching and protecting my surroundings. I come and go enough from different groups but I don't find a lot of value from the way they interact and they seem to think I am weird. I find value in helping where I can, but am at a loss for understanding the expectations for where I am supposed to fit or what I am supposed to get out of these interactions.

I'm often asked "what are you?" After a while of trying to interact. This makes it clear to me that others can not understand that I don't need or want to fit in a box for them. I spend my time shrinking away out of sight, while at the same time being the center of conversation for those confused or intimidated by me.

I blind myself to the attention, and focuse on the things that do catch my eye. I'm starting to feel like a covert scientist.

Telling dumb kids I found a Hershey's kiss in the sandbox and they should eat it

I really enjoy Rory Miller's book Conflict Communication (highly recommended - reading it a second time now). He talks about the "Lizard" brain, the "Monkey" brain and the "Human" brain. Most of the conflicts you describe arise from the Monkey. The conflict is either to create and maintain a social group, to establish and maintain a hierarchy within a group or to enforce the mores of the group. The biggest problem with politics right now as I see it is that we have different "Tribes" with different mores competing for control. America is supposed to be about "live and let live" but there is a huge push by the Left for control of the mores. IMO.

Rage against the dying of the Light.

To continue speaking out against political correctness.