Man stands face to face with the
irrational, he feels within him his
longing for happiness and for reason, the
absurd is born of this confrontation
between the human need and the
unreasonable silence of the world.
This must not be forgotten.
 With all that's happening my anxiety has been flaring up
like a fucking forest fire, so, as
someone who's too hopeless for religion
and not enough of an edge lord for
nihilism I've gone back to reading about
the bastard child of their 
clandestine affair:
Absurdism.
I'll explain how it helps.
There's this french dude, Albert Camus, he
used to talk a lot about this thing
called the absurd. I sure hope I'm saying
his name right because I'm about to say
it a lot. The absurd in the car crash of
a car and a bus, if the car was
human tendency to seek meaning in life
and the bus was a chaotic, meaningless
universe. Camus thought that, us
humans, live in this perpetual car crash.
Human condition itself is Absurd.
There's this other dude, Greek this time,
Sisyphus. There's a myth about him. This
one put death in chains, not in a bondage
kind of way
more so that, if death is chained no one
dies. Kinda lit if I do say so myself.
Well, death escaped, the gods were pissed, and they killed him.
But our boy Sisyphus tricked them and escaped the
underworld... And he got caught again.
His punishment was to push a rock up a
mountain, when he got to the top, the rock
would roll back down, and he would push
it up again and again, forever.
Camus, when writing about Sisyphus focused on
when he was going down the mountain
after the rock, that's when he has time
to acknowledge how meaningless his task
is and to recognize that, even so, he will
be doing it for eternity. That's when
he's free to realize the absurdity of
his situation, and to accept it.
according to Camus, when he faces the
absurd, embraces it, and accepts that
there's nothing more to life than that
he can proceed to find happiness in it.
Becoming them, the Absurd Hero, who hates
death and lives life to the fullest
despite his repetitive, meaningless, task.
Can you relate yet?
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a
man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus
happy. The point I'm trying to make is,
we now more than ever, can be compared to
Sisyphus. Being in quarantine, locked away,
days getting mixed up because they're so
fucking repetitive. With no idea of when
we'll be allowed to go back to our
normal lives.
Even more than that, with the lingering
thought that, when all of this is over,
normal might not mean the same thing as
it met before.
That's absurd.
Well this French bon vivant says you
should face. Accept that this is your
reality, for now at least. After getting
caught up in the news and protocols you
should follow, you should embrace it.
Live in tandem with the absurd. Live life
to the fullest within whatever bonds you
have upon yourself. Find the times when
you're going down the mountain after the
rock with gravity as your friend. I guess
this video was just a very roundabout
way of saying enjoy the little things.
A good cup of coffee,
a video call with old friends, that dank
ass meme you saw. In those times you've
forged meaning in a meaningless universe,
you are the Absurd hero.
There is no
longer a single idea explaining
everything but an infinite number of
essences giving a meaning to an infinite
number of objects the world comes to a
stop but also lights up.
