Status Updates From Fear and Trembling

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what then would life be but despair?"

Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.

Bruh introduction was so dull and now I feel like I should have read Hegel first... but here we go...