Let me say this, freedom comes with the sacrifice of torment. In today’s world, this is the number one cause of conflict. It reminds us that our opinions are nothing more than just that, opinions. This deconstruction has another purpose, though. Religion, science, even philosophy cannot provide any sense of direction and we’re hopelessly lost in the vast sea of nothingness. Once we understand the meaninglessness in our meaningful values, we access the scary world of uncertainty where we are bound to be lost. Once stripped of its common romanticism, the world is a foreign, strange and inhuman place true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world: their stories ultimately end in meaningless abstractions, in metaphors.” “We build our life on the hope for tomorrow, yet tomorrow brings us closer to death and is the ultimate enemy people live their lives as if they were not aware of the certainty of death. We’re putting too much importance on the wrong things, and we’re not remembering our true necessities.Ĭamus summarizes this perfectly, he wrote: We’re too wrapped up in politics, government, entertainment, science, etc. No science, logic, or philosophy is surmountable to changing that.īecause eventually, everything will cease to exist, it’s that simple. This meaninglessness, says Camus, comes from reality. We do it to delay the confrontation with meaninglessness. It’s why we do what we do and find meaning in such. This conflict is the meaning of our existence. “The absurd is the battle between our desire for meaning and a meaningless reality.”

Sisyphus story