I still cling on to the romantic delusion that some sort of Lennon/McCartney, Jobs/Wozniak creative rivalry-partnership will fulfil me deeply; I think I meet people with the hope of finding another polytribal weirdo who's interested in a semi-stable collaborative relationship
Most individuals themselves are probably very bimodal about this, depending on the mood/day/time of day/phase of moon/period of love/period of (inter)war/world cup results/etc
Not sure whether to select grand narrative or void-power. A little unnerved by the implicit modernism of the first option. Maybe they're two different definitions of meaning rather than a binary between being meaningful or not.