> When your own appetite for meaning is satiated, and you are ready to start making meaning games for others. When you’re ready to play god for your own amuseme

> When your own appetite for meaning is satiated, and you are ready to start making meaning games for others. When you’re ready to play god for your own amusement. So what the author is effectively saying is that at a certain age one jumps (more or less) from being at the receiving end of meaning-games to being at the transmitting end of it. What the author is reluctant to acknowledge is the fact that his (ever more abstractly phrased) "appetitive for meaning" has not ended (via being satiated, for culture-induced meaning by its nature cannot be satiated), but rather has taken on a new form and position (whilst still remaining an appetite). The author, as of now, is as bound to the cultural shackles as his teenage self. Indeed now he is helping perpetuate the cycle.