Metaphysical Rant <-may be misusing the word "metaphyisical"

What happens when you win? Like, at life? What happens when you finally take over the world, and kill all the rebels, and you are truly, securely in power? What happens when technology reaches the point when everyone can live comfortably, when poverty no longer exists? I have this itching feeling that it will be like every time I finish a video game, secret stages and all, done everything I possibly can. This may be a poor comparison, but there's always that feeling of "okay, what now?" Then I go out and buy another game, go through figuratively similar trials, and do the whole thing all over again. The same basic principle has nagged at me when I think of those who seek power for power's sake, when I toyed with the idea of writing about Palpatine. What if he won? What if the rebels were eliminated, and he ruled the galaxy for the rest of his force-elongated life? I mean, power for power's sake seems pointless, once you've got all the power, what do you do? Does anyone else think of this? I'm going to be very annoyed if this post turns out more question marks than any other form of punctuation, but it looks like it's going to be inevitable, almost socratic in that I'll have more questions than answers. How's that for self-reference? So what if we, as a species, win? Winning defined as solving all the problems with our environment, poverty, evil dictators and terrorists, the decay of education, teen angst, whatever. Where do we go? Do we reset, or do we find another game? Or maybe we make it all a game, at least more so than it seems to be already. If we win, and it does have a point, then we won't really have won, we'll just have achieved an objective, and continue from there. I guess I'm kind of hoping for that, not necessarily as an individual, but as a member of the species as a whole. As an individual, I'm still working on it, but I think I'd rather just enjoy myself and make sure not too much lame shit happens, insofar as anyone is capable of preventing shit from happening. I kind of hope I'm around when we win, maybe even help us win, because I'm really curious about what happens next. I wonder if any of this made any sense.