An interesting recipe. Sit in a busy, fancy, hip café. Start reading about Camus on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Wait for 'Stayin' alive' by the Bee Gees to come on. Become self-aware. Start moving your head to the beat. Realize that partial dancing rocks. Remember that 'Stayin' alive' is the song to knead someone's heart to while resuscitating them. Watch Vinnie Jones explain the basics of CPR. Relax. Blog about it. Stare out the window.
Camus writes that our situation is absurd. Why? We constantly, even necessarily, ask ourselves 'what is the meaning of life?' when there is no answer. This creates an 'irresolvable emptiness' which we have to bear. This is probably similar to when you ask your friend / lover / favourite pet what they want for dinner and they say 'I don't know'. A necessary question that you scream into the infinite void.
But that's ok. Just like you eventually have to choose what to eat, eventually you have to choose what to live for. So what's the point? I dunno, you tell me.
space bends arround objects creating gravity. it's like saying the moon is running on the edge of a bowl indented in the 'fabric' ov space by the earth. general relativity wants this to be true in your case as well. you may think you shout into the void, but you actually send a wave wandering stupidly arround yourself. but if no one is there to whitness it...does it become an uncertainty light experiment?...will the tree have made no sound because nobody was there to bare whitness to it?
ReplyDeleteand you will eventually spintop into a bigger pit and call it fate, making fatalism a byproduct of general relativity.
the point is to grasp this in your uncertain mind.