Meaningless or meaningful 2

Can we experience the meaningless as meaningful? Indeed, we can. It is quite normal.
War is meaningless. All conflicts can be solved in other ways. But once a war has started it is experienced as most meaningful. War is the extreme form of the combination of exaggerated desire, anger and confusion.
In war we are desperate to win, we hate the enemy and the confusion about purpose and means is total.
This is the problem with mind. It can lock itself in a strange way, making the meaningless look meaningful.
How can such a mind be unlocked? It is a matter of identity. If a person identifies himself or herself as a person in the extreme, it is a serious loss of face to become "normal".
But if the person sees the extreme activities as temporary and quite alien to the true identity, it is a relief to leave the extreme.
So the therapeutic method could be not to try to jump directly from the extreme to the the balanced, but to go from the extreme to a neutral identity and later to the socially balanced identity. And it is a process without drama - the extreme steps are what we want to avoid.