im starting to come round to nietzsche's "perspectivism". if we have the courage to hollow out the world of metaphysical trappings, then all which remains is phenomena without the semblance of a unitary "truth" to bind it together. this is not at once to say that there is no meaning or value, but only that these are necessarily subjective categories with no objective authority. abstract ideas are emanations of the will to power; systems of thought like morality trap people within invisible cages which they do not permit themselves to escape from. all the world is nothing more than a feeling made to be felt.