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If the universe is absurd and you respond by just doing lotta stuff without building lasting project or ethical framework, you haven't actually solved the problem of existence, you've just distracted yourself from it. I love my "Aha!" moment when I read the Don Juan parts.

"Only, we think that man has always a possible recourse to himself. There is no choice so unfortunate that he cannot be saved."

To truly be free, you must work to liberate others, your freedom is blocked if you’re surrounded by people who aren’t free to respond to your view.

“How can I use freedom to shape a world worth living in?”

I find the Stoic ‘Dichotomy of Control’ efficient for personal productivity, but she challenge me by asking is that tranquility just a sophisticated way of being bystander? 🧍🫩

More interesting. When Ontological Freedom meet Ethical Freedom. ;)

". A God can pardon, efface, and compensate. But if God does not exist, man’s faults are inexpiable. If it is claimed that, whatever the case may be, this earthly stake has no importance, this is precisely because one invokes that inhuman objectivity which we declined at the start."

So thought provoking, I love that.

He knows how to fill a niche.

What the fuck did I just read....

I get the point, he's trying to say that we should mantain the state of lucid revolt instead of trying to fix it with hope (religion) or despair (suicide).

The absurd feeling emerges when the stage-sets collapse and disrupting the mechanical routine of daily life with "Why?" This awakening triggers either a return to habit or a movement toward recovery or suicide.

Camus describes this as a state of denseness, where the world becomes alien and irreducible, and human behavior appears as a meaningless pantomime to us.