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In this special wrap-up episode, I take you back through the journey of The Will to Joy’s first season—what we explored, what we uncovered, and how far this project has already evolved. From the human condition in all its frustration and striving, to the three-part exposition of will to power, this episode closes one chapter and opens the next.

I also look ahead to what’s coming:

– the future of the podcast

– the launch of my forthcoming book Nietzsche. Sex. Power. A Manifesto of Ascending Life (2026)

– and the direction this entire movement is heading

We'll reflect on the new ideas that have emerged in the process—my interpretation of will to power, the “economy of bodies” we all inhabit, and our practical, evolutionary approach to Nietzsche that you won’t find anywhere else.

I speak openly about the reality of creating this work: leaving my job, burning my bridges, and committing fully to this project—and how you can play a part in bringing the next phase to life by joining me as a De Profundis member.

To close, I offer a compact but incisive exercise drawn from Nietzsche’s idea of “giving style” to one’s character—an uncompromising method for discovering the values you actually live by, beyond your self-image or good intentions.

If you’ve followed this season, you’re here at the beginning of something. Consider this your invitation to continue the ascent.

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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.

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Dionysus wants to make you stronger, more evil, more profound – and more beautiful.

In this second part of the season finale, we follow that cosmic pied piper into the heart of Nietzsche’s most explosive idea: the will to power.

Last time, we dismantled the myth of free will and showed that selection is the basic logic of reality – from molecules to memes. Now we pick up those threads and begin to trace their connection to Nietzsche’s patron deity. We explore Dionysus as the living symbol of a world without metaphysical safety nets: no God, no higher justice, no ultimate meaning – just an inexhaustible flux that delights both in creation and destruction. Greek tragedy, ecstasy, ego-death, joy in suffering: Dionysus is the world drunk on itself.

From there, we denude “will” and “power” and subject them to a thorough examination. Is a tree’s striving for light a kind of love? Does a rock “want” to fall? What if your own wanting is just a late, conscious complication of a more basic cosmic tendency? We track will from galaxies to genes to nervous systems, and power from brute survival to your everyday ambitions.

Ultimately, we're going to expose will to power as the very machinery of existence.

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If you value Will to Joy (formerly Becoming Übermensch) and you want more, please ensure its continued existence by supporting the show

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