Another really interesting listen, have to thank the friend who recommended this to me..
If like me you are of an inquisitive nature – and you wish to know what is being said in the background – Id like to thank WilcoAppetizer – on Reddit for the following –
These are extracts from the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. Here are the English translation (not my work, it was done by Justin O’Brien), which I found Here.
Reddit Thread –
Like the other poster, it is not always easy to hear where it starts and ends, so I wasn’t exactly sure where to cut or start:
On the other hand, I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying).
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Of an apartment-building manager who had killed himself I was told that he had lost his daughter five years before, that he had changed greatly since, and that that experience had “undermined” him.
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What sets off the crisis is almost always unverifiable. Newspapers often speak of “personal sorrows” or of “incurable illness.” These explanations are plausible. But one would have to know whether a friend of the desperate man had not that very day addressed him indifferently.
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…the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
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…either yes or no. This would be too easy. But allowance must be made for those who, without concluding, continue questioning. Here I am only slightly indulging in irony: this is the majority. I notice also that those who answer “no” act as if they thought “yes.” As a matter of fact, if I accept the Nietzschean criterion, they think “yes” in one way or another.
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