And sometimes there just isn't anything there to find.
But we keep looking because the idea of nothing is simply too
abhorrent.
There is a tremendously difficult and disturbing aspect to Peer Gynt
(the original story, not the music on which it's based).
Searching for his "self" he peels off layer after layer like an onion,
getting ever deeper seemingly towards a real self. But on the last
layer he experiences the horror of finding nothing more. What he
"is", is constituted by the sum of the layers.
After that, the entire nature of the "search for meaning" has to
change.
But we keep looking because the idea of nothing is simply too abhorrent.
There is a tremendously difficult and disturbing aspect to Peer Gynt (the original story, not the music on which it's based).
Searching for his "self" he peels off layer after layer like an onion, getting ever deeper seemingly towards a real self. But on the last layer he experiences the horror of finding nothing more. What he "is", is constituted by the sum of the layers.
After that, the entire nature of the "search for meaning" has to change.