>As an individual energetic energy what is the damn point of all this striving for height?
Perspective, right?
The high ground is useful for evil folk who like attacking each other but after you're satiated and your enemies are defeated, what does it come to?
Helping other people's paths, building up the waste places, and making straight the paths of everyone around you.
Or, maybe more attacking of everyone around you? I don't subscribe personally but I'll grant that's a possible interpretation.
Though with that said, you have a great existential question there. I might add my line of questioning: how do I become perfect in this very second?