Seeking Power

Sometimes ignorance is preferable to the detailed truth. Maybe, we only care about truth in so far as it empowers us: knowing and thinking about all of the details of every orange tree would just be a psychological burden for the most of us. I'll take illusion over the reality. But I can't help but ask, "Is it possible that the mind is actually accessing a deeper kind of truth?" Maybe, the mind is separating the signal from the noise. But, what constitutes signal versus noise? Our values. A farmer that values knowing all the details of an orange tree will view it differently than a regular person. Well, where do our values come from? Here's Nietzsche's view from Beyond Good and Evil: "Behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement, there too stand valuations or, more clearly, physiological demands for the preservation of a certain type of life." For Nietzsche, our values come from our physiological demands, and what does our physiology demand? Power. It wants to survive and thrive. What does it mean to thrive? To imagine the world a certain way and to be able to make that illusion a reality. Someone could try to contest this idea, by saying that they don't seek power or want to thrive, they won't eat or drink anything to prove this point. But, they would "still" be seeking a kind of power, they imagine a world in which they prove the idea wrong and they seek to bring "that" world into fruition, even at their own expense.