A roller coaster life is absurd?

A roller coaster life is absurd?

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The absurd is lucid reason, noting its limits” — Albert Camus’ essay “The Myth of Sisyphus.”

We are living in a generation that has forgotten its purpose. We are a people without telos. That is why the modern world appears to be a wasteland. In a roller coaster day, no intellectual depth and utter absurdity.

We binge-watch TV shows, we chase careers, we scroll endlessly, we travel from one artificial amusement to the next. We are entertained but empty, busy but barren, constantly consuming but never satisfied. The problem is not that modern people are idle. The problem is that our aim is wrong. Without telos, all effort is misdirected. Without telos, men fire arrows into the wind, never hitting the target.

Here’s the everything: We’ve dedicated several past times to the decline of “third places,” which are venues for socializing that are neither work nor home. Think public libraries, parks, and recreation centers — spaces that do not have a cost barrier and bring together people from different backgrounds. Third places are the social nodes of a community. They are places where people can meet and form bonds.

Yet lucid reason can recognize that there are limits to what it can rationalize and understand. Noticing those limits leads to attempts to rationalize them, which is also impossible. It’s a contradiction. Your lucid reasoning dictates that it can’t rationalize something, yet it attempts to rationalize it anyway. That’s why it’s part of the absurd. It is necessary to master intelligence and other artificialities, because they can help you (and a lot!). But they should not be you — this includes the fact that there are things you cannot know, given your limited faculties, that no matter how hard you tried, you could never perceive. I feel like some of these limitations we’re aware of, and many of them are simply beyond awareness altogether, beyond knowing we don’t know them.

In these third places, somewhere between the philosophical musings on human nature and a rogue grocery list — Basically, in human relationships, we are buyers and sellers at all times. However, some people are professionals while others are quacks. Somebody also says it’s easy to tell yourself you don’t need anyone. That solitude is strength, that independence is safety. But over time, carrying everything by yourself starts to feel less like freedom and more like a burden.

But, everything is about to change — something happens! We can go forward with the tool of faith. Or as Kierkegaard tells, all is irrational — accept the irrationality of the world, but not abandon reason in a leap of rational faith in the idea of God. Belief is thinking, too. Lucid reason is different in this regard. You have no other tool to understand the world, so there’s no need to rationalize it. It’s like being able to see only through a microscope and having no eyes to look at the world around you. But if you had no eyes, you wouldn’t know there was a limit to your vision.

This should be enough to see the difference. For Camus, the Absurd is the same as. impossible, contradictory. And it is with this definition that he builds his philosophy, not ridiculous or extremely strange, a common mistake.

He picks out a contradiction and equates it with absurdity. This is a binary in his case, his desire for a rational understanding of the world and the realization that he can’t have it. Or, in the philosophical examples, that is the meaning Camus goes with…

“I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”

Understanding what has been and what will be experienced — within the spaces we shape is essential to imagining the future. This short plan asks some big questions: Have you felt blessed? How are you measuring success? What’s not working in your life? They’re important things for men to consider every so often.

I want to be so disgustingly well-read. I want to be sitting at tables, talking about books with names that roll off your tongue like an exotic animal’s name. I want to talk about theories, the expanse of science and philosophy, the universe, religion, love, and my career. Education and culture are fun when you change your perspective…

There are many people nowadays, especially young people, who think the world is big, scary, and on the brink of an apocalypse. So I imagine people in this world need something to place their faith in. There is a need for a hero’s story. And in our small world today, how many have appeared?

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