We do require power to help us survive but it is secondary to the goal of evolving to Godhood, and not power for power's sake, as Nietzsche suggested, and as postmoderns have expanded from Nietzsche, with nihilistic consequences. The act of interpreting things and values is usually indirectly and unconsciously a form of the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within material life activating life to evolve to Godhood, then shaped by outside evolution and selection. This is not a goalless will-to-power, it has the goal of evolving within material life toward supermaterial Godhood.
We feel and define things, their qualities, in relation to our possibilities of survival and power, but more essentially in accord with our upward evolution. This is where and how we interpret the worth of things. We interpret things mostly unconsciously before we make our conscious choices. Teleology is physical, contrary to Nietzsche who saw teleology as only as nonphysical purpose derived by humans---interesting that the traditional religious mystics, who Nietzsche was not a fan of, also found teleology nonphysical. Godhood is a superphysical object which we can evolve to become in the material world as our inward drives seek more successful survival and higher evolution.
There is an essential Being or Beings at the highest level of evolution, or there can be---all values therefore are not relative to individuals. Some values are higher than others, with Godhood being the highest value, and this higher value of Godhood is what survival, reproduction and evolution strives for in the first place.
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