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27. Will to Power - Nietzsche’s theory of everything and what it means for you. Season finale, Part 2
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Dionysus wants to make you stronger, more evil, more profound – and more beautiful.
In this second part of the season finale, we follow that cosmic pied piper into the heart of Nietzsche’s most explosive idea: the will to power.
Last time, we dismantled the myth of free will and showed that selection is the basic logic of reality – from molecules to memes. Now we pick up those threads and begin to trace their connection to Nietzsche’s patron deity. We explore Dionysus as the living symbol of a world without metaphysical safety nets: no God, no higher justice, no ultimate meaning – just an inexhaustible flux that delights both in creation and destruction. Greek tragedy, ecstasy, ego-death, joy in suffering: Dionysus is the world drunk on itself.
From there, we denude “will” and “power” and subject them to a thorough examination. Is a tree’s striving for light a kind of love? Does a rock “want” to fall? What if your own wanting is just a late, conscious complication of a more basic cosmic tendency? We track will from galaxies to genes to nervous systems, and power from brute survival to your everyday ambitions.
Ultimately, we're going to expose will to power as the very machinery of existence.
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