There really is a lot to this piece, but my favorite passages, to start, grapple with Nietzsche's quote, “Man will sooner will nothingness than not will.” - "W

There really is a lot to this piece, but my favorite passages, to start, grapple with Nietzsche's quote, “Man will sooner will nothingness than not will.” - "When he wrote 'Man will sooner will nothingness than not will,' Nietzsche was exposing the destructive side of humanity’s meaning-making drive. That drive is so powerful, Nietzsche’s saying, that when forced to the precipice of nihilism, we would choose meaningful self-annihilation over meaningless bare life. This insight was horrifically borne out in the Götterdämmerung of Nazi Germany, just as it’s being borne out today in every new suicide attack by jihadi terrorists — even as it’s being borne out here at home in our willfully destructive politics of rage." "Our drive to make meaning is more powerful than oil, the atom, and the market, and it’s up to us to harness that power to secure the future of the human species."