I think this is just as useful as nihilism except nihilism has the advantage of being more honest and simpler. People seek meaning in life almost precisely to r

I think this is just as useful as nihilism except nihilism has the advantage of being more honest and simpler. People seek meaning in life almost precisely to reduce their freedom to act or not act or to think or not think. Meaning is a constraint on possible action and the desire for meaning is a desire to have that constraint imposed on us by external standards of behavior and thought, by god, by reason, whatever. You can't choose this kind of meaning because you can always choose it differently from one moment to the next. Neither is such a definition of meaning useful for intermediating between human beings in conflict. I don't see the point of answering the question this way.