Herbert Marcuse was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.
The revolving and revised worrisome states we create for ourselves project an antithesis of life hardly recognizable through the eyes of our threat detectors. Evolution made us this way, adaptable to our environment and automatons on a hostile planet.
Discipline and orientation towards something comes to mind in this exercise of free association. A free-for-all, on the other hand is a chaotic alternative, can you measure the results and adapt to your environment? How do you maximize your creative expression and succeed?