slaves

Mike Ballard
"slaves to the meaning we created"...good one. Exactly. We're dominated by our own creations. Oh poor things we make ourselves. But, if we can laugh at the absurdity, we can accept our advancing maturity.

Excellently done.  Makes Nietzsche and Bataille relevant to our ever present continuum.

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Georges Bataille's perspective on tragedy and divine laughter

Jennifer Armstrong
 I'm glad I was able to make it make sense.   One can really understand  what is being got at by the writers by means of a formal stucture that one could probably depict as a graphic.   Too much truth-certainty leads us to dominate ourselves by means of our unshakeable faith in what we think we know.   This overestimation of what we think we know produces such unhappy features as weakness of character and (at times) gradiosity.   If we can move outside of ourselves, to see the contingencies of life, we can become more whole, more resilient and more self-aware, especially as regards the real value of knowledge, which is understood as relative (not as the absolute thing we had thought it to be).