"The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need [to understand] and the unreasonable silence of the world."
Today's Question
If the world never answered your questions at all, where would you still find a reason to keep living?
The philosopher who called an eternal punishment 'happiness'
During the Nazi occupation of France, Camus edited a Resistance newspaper while wrestling with how humans could find meaning in a world with no god and no absolute truth. He named this fundamental mismatch 'the absurd.'
In 'The Myth of Sisyphus,' he used the myth of Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to forever push a boulder up a mountain, only for it to roll back down each time. Camus imagined Sisyphus accepting this absurd labor and closed the book with the line, 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'