21 - Final Fantasy VI and the Will to Meaning
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Final Fantasy VI asks whether a will to meaning can stand against nihilism after the world is ruined. Kefka embodies a self-deifying will to power (Nietzsche's "create your own values"), while the ensemble must face despair, personal loss, and global ruin and still discover meaning through purpose, love, and connection. The episode pairs that Frankl-framed question with C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man: a man without a chest who grasps for power and ends as an empty shell.
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