Since nothing has meaning then how can meaning be erratic and whimsical? Set that aside…
Meaning is evidently highly personal, and uniquely human. With the advent of intelligence, human beings have gone from one bizarre and inexplicable vagary to the next. A seeming dichotomy of actions and outcomes. A reckless abandon toward oblivion taking every living thing with ‘em.
Leaving us only with perception and the personal import of that perception.
A specific example is exemplified by the saying “there’s no accounting for taste”, amazingly true. I like rock and roll, others don’t. I make rock and roll I like, and don’t like. Some like the music I make that I don’t like. My favorite line is a mystery to others. Their favorite line is a mystery to me. We try to communicate these different perceptions and wind up crucifying the opposition minority. Or in my case being correct, while everybody else is wrong. Everybody…yee everybody.
The wonderful thing about the vagaries of meaning is that there is always some other human out there with a unique and specific outlook that will fit with or share common attributes with others’ perceptions. So in other words, we are not 100% different to the point of finding no shared values. We form niches. Good thing too, because if there are enough shared values communities spring up with all the incumbent marketing possibilities for the entrepreneurs.
Bad thing too because if there are enough shared values religions spring up and begin to repress, attack and kill every other viewpoint, literally.
But still, what an inconsistent mess from the local street to the chambers of “power”. The truth of the matter, the facts of the matter are entirely lost on humans and their meanings are all they see. Humans have little or no perspective.
Perspective? Didn’t I just say we all have different perspectives? Yeah, but having perspective is a different context. Learn English! Having no perspective is a reference to the inability to take the holistic view of any given context, or outside the bounds of the context to a universal holistic view.
And that is why nothing has meaning.
Strip away the vagaries of meaning and you are left with nothing but the facts, truth.
Yes, philosophers like to think truth is a concept whereas facts are solid information or events, but the truth is, the fact is, (puns intended) that there is the IS and it is true. Depending on what your definition of is is. (I can’t believe the Bill Clinton’s crazy rationalizing has made the fabric of metaphor.)
Strip away your vagaries and all that is left is peace…