“If so, then what explains the genesis of will to power?”
Nothing does, because nothing has to. There is nothing from which will to power comes. It is itself the begenning, where all begins.
Because, and here is what the key is, it is where anything begins to matter. And nothing is that doesn’t matter. Go ahead, tell me something that doesn’t matter. The very idea is laughable: even if magic and you said something that doesn’t matter, I wouldn’t care, you wouldn’t care, nobody would care. It would be as if you didn’t say it.
Now, if that’s the abyss you mean, where one attempts to will nothing, there is a reason it looks back. And this whole thing, the abyss, looking at it… is will to power. Created by will to power willing will to power.
Will to power has no need of it to be explained.
There is no absolute flux. There is no being without direction. And in the end, that is all will to power is: the directionality of existence. Or, to a poetic mind like Jakob’s, the existence of directionality.
Jakob, you say I am saying the same thing as you in fancy ways. It is VO that says the same thing as will to power, but with one addition. This addition already makes it a product of will to power rather than will to power. One of the unscrutable infinity of products (a good one, says I). It is the static moment where a thing already exists before it acts: that which values and/or is valued.