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Welcome to the third and final part of the Will to Joy Season Finale. 

This episode is going to be the most momentous. We wrestle with will to power as it relates to you and to your life. You'll be faced with the most consequential question—that of the value of your own existence.

We track Nietzsche’s break from Schopenhauer’s pessimism, the shift from “will to life” to “will to power,” and the emergence of Dionysus as the figure who dissolves all boundaries: between desire and fulfilment, self and world, necessity and freedom. This isn’t Greek mythology; it’s the psychological architecture of your instincts, your ambitions, and the drives you pretend not to have.

Along the way, we daly with determinism, deflate guilt and regret, and contend with Nietzsche’s most severe test. Your answer shapes the person you are right now and will become—not through choice, but through necessity.

This episode explores the exquisite tension between total acceptance of reality and the irrepressible urge to strive, to overcome, to expand, to change the world. It shows how these opposites form a single dynamic—the Dionysian duality at the heart of life itself.

If you engage wholeheartedly, you’ll come away with a new way of seeing your suffering, your desires, your past, and your future. The depths of Nietzschean thought we'll explore are not just philosophy; they offer an initiation. 

Some lessons, properly learned, cannot be unlearned. 

Some truths can be integrated only by those strong enough to bear them.

In the end, joy is the only goal that justifies itself.

Music: Kate Bush, Nocturn

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