Will to Meaning?
nietzsche and adler said will to power while freud said will to pleasure well, it sure as hell isn't will to truth so maybe it's in frankl who said will to meaning meaning willed into being by coalescence complicating then spoiling truth like the rest of us submitting to hypocrisy in our will to meaning there's force and power in numbers reassurances when enough believe then enough must be enough for the extraneous details counter facts and evidence to be disposable like gristle when enough agree which facts and evidence are really just waste to the meaning they've willed unconcerned about coherence cause that's never the goal the goal is comfort in the will to meaning through necessarily pliable systems like our pliable minds of limp and malleable metaphysics politics theisms art overlapping cogent like lumps from different puzzles forced to fit as a work of abstract art interpretable as any goddamned thing that gives temporary meaning and comfort this will to meaning not free tethered as it is always seeking always needing staking then new stakes for temporary coherence and cohesion since tomorrow's fact will require the pounding of new stakes or new creative dismissals from our theologians intellectuals artists and politicians as the world implodes scrambling for meanings willed into being from resurrections and nativities grasping for better structure better meaning to cease further implosion striving reviving birthing meanings both new and old for balance in a culture where enough meanings might be enough to satisfy enough of us for a while within the incoherence of our willed meanings it seems worse sometimes than the meaning its incoherence proposes to give that must be the irony or absurdity we necessarily accept: for there to be deeper richer fuller meanings cobbled together from the irregular scraps of ideological heaps providing the illusion of depth and security while inherently there must be incoherence and instability in this grasping this willful and desperately patchworked and loose stitched network of meaning giving way to anxieties in some proportion to the amount of meaning they supply the paradox in meaning's bearing anxiety from knowing the structure of our meaning the whole damned thing might collapse so easily at the tug of a thread leaving us with the options of children playing princess or accepting ourselves as nothing more than vulnerable little children evading that harsh reality by masquerading as princesses
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