• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

    The man is a lunatic. Prolonged struggle and strife without at least some visible progress is abject torture.

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      4 months ago

      all philosophy will sound bad if you imagine the worst possible case scenario it could apply to

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      4 months ago

      The existentialists didn’t agree on much, but they all saw absurdity in existence. Is pushing a rock up a hill any more or less absurd than a 9-5 paper pushing job?