
The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
Revolution and Ideology
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Is Acceptance at Its Extreme?
There's three responses, absurd, death, hope or revolt. So we can die. We can escape by the leap and rebuild a mansion of ideas to one's own scale. Living is keeping the absurd alive. Keeping alive is contemplating it. The theme of permanent revolution is thus carried out into individual experience. One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It challenges the world anew every second. And in that he's talking about your very existence and maintaining your consciousness of the revolt and facing it, you know, head on.
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