A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 78
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We laugh at ourselves and our foolishness, for until now we had thought that “meaning” was a need, an undernourished organ of human nature, and when we found it impossible to satisfy “our need,” we found a name for this absence of meaning, “nothingness.” In reaction, we even thought on occasion that this vacuum was the goal. At last we had a voice to sound out the depths of our souls ... and with great success, for we had become hollow.