• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1217 days 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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      1017 days 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?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        417 days ago

        I think the argument is that the 9-5 is torturous by a particularly direct comparison to sysiphus. Granted, most work is easier than pushing a boulder, but just as life stealing.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        1
        edit-2
        17 days ago

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

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