Meaning and Motivation: Structure, Fit, and Drive

There is always a social context to our behavior. We all have a prescribing culture influencing that behavior and either there is a myth, however personal, ordaining that culture, making that context legitimate, or one is a nihilist.
We speak of meaningful social existence and motivated people in vague generalities and specific examples. This blog is an attempt to bring order to that chaos of analysis, to rationalize, if not the actor, then the act.
What is meaning? That question drives the quest of philosophy to define goods and find happiness. What, in short, does meaning mean? For human behavior, it means personally relevant social context, structure, in which one behaves and relevance in that behavior to that context, fit, and a temporal point A in that social context worth occupying and a temporal point B beckoning, drive.
I have a personal psychological space of Victorian and transcendental symbol and canon that defines my relevant context and pragmatic values that define my behavioral repertoire simply because that era is the last instance of true continuity in Western Civilization. In this multicultural, linguistically relative, universe that has technologically been brought into being, I have to pick my relevant moments and ignore, to the extent possible, those that aren't personally relevant. This has given me a reputation for being distant and cavalier but I suspect that reputation of being authored by disordered and irrelevant social contexts. In any case, it is a condition of my existence.
Being civilized is difficult under the kind of disruptive influences that hold sway today. Civilization is found, as it has been since Byzantium, in the library and in individual lives and in those books and in those lives one finds structure, fit, and drive.