Status Updates From Sisifos Söyleni

I am going to briefly pause at this stage of the book since i am officially through parts 1 and 2 of 4. exhausting, but i’ve learned such and such about absurdism. Camus comes across as slightly officious in his writings but I can see the validity in his arguments against religion

Suicide negates the “consciousness desire for unity” part of the absurd equation. With no mind, the absurd is resolved by rushing to death, which is our end when no meaning or future-after-death is presented, when only abstract leaps can be made to conclude rational meaning/universal cohesion. In this way, we are “condemned to death”(pg55) therefore to live with this “truth” is to revolt against death.

When a consciousness highlights the absurd and wishes not to leap away from the anguish the tension creates, one must be ever aware of this unreasonable world and one’s own desire for unity or reason. This causes the problems of day to day to strengthen in the mind, as there is no alternate place to go after life, this is it. “Abstract evidence”(I think=assumptions) shifts towards a sight of human creation.