Why, for example, should you be more efficient at anything?
Why should you be more creative?
Why should you want more of anything?
Why should you be a good parent?
Why should you be a good spouse?
Why should you be s dutiful child?
Why should you be a good citizen?
Do you ask these questions?
Why?
Or why not?
When was the last time you stopped moving long enough to wonder if somewhere along the way you got your head stuck up your ass?
The problem, of course, is not that there are no answers, but that the dominant cultural threads dominating the growing post-religious element of our society do not have GOOD answers.
And in such a world, a manic acquisitiveness and need for power is not emotionally irrational, even if it is inherently unbalanced and incompatible with contentment or lasting or deep happiness.
If I might echo Socrates, knowing nothing is vastly better than feeling confident you do know things which are manifestly wrong. You are then clinging. You are then afraid. You are then also alone in important ways. You live, not in a cave, but in a cage.
Here is thing: an open, direct relationship with the truth cannot be shared. It is yours alone. It is your path.
But you can recognize those who have also done this work, also crossed the void, the ocean, in their own way. And THIS unites people, where shared manias and shared lies, in the end, do not.
Slake your own thirst. Then you will have enough for all.