This Absurd Universe: Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- A second take on Albert Camus' Myth of Sisyphus!
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Is the speaker aware of her Sisyphean erasing and drawing?
Lauren Sarrantonio one must imagine she happy.
@@kimyunmi452 I love it!
I have given up on understanding the essay more than 10 times. Guess that rock gets rolled up permanently by this video. Great effort!
I'm too mature and too educated to even start picking it apart and explain why it's such a flawed essay. The message stands, but I find it much easier to learn from Zen and Lao Tse than a highly subjective interpretation of an ancient myth.
@@DarkAngelEU it's actually akin to zen. I myself am also a practitioner of the contemplative arts. I am originally what is referred to as a self inquirer much like Camus. His myth is sysiphus is actually a methodology for self inquiry. I have also practiced dreaming, zen in the form of horse stance meditation, and psyhedelics. It was my own concoction created after much study in order to understand cessation as depicted in certain texts. I.e. Buddhism for cessation, Atman and Brahman for Hinduism, the point of origin in the dao de ching, El in Judaism, the great spirit in native American practices, and so on. All depict the same experience. Having undergone cessation while I must admit contraction and expansion of inner see hear and feel with outer see hear feel has a certain feel to it due to the nature of cessation and the fact that I had no teacher or school I stopped meditating when I forgot who I was. And while I have fond memories of the liberating experience of cessation I find that as a self inquirer it was actually never needed for me to overcome the second arrow. Not sure if your familiar with that terminology but the first arrow is the event whatever event it may be. The second arrow is our reaction to that event. Since outside of a very select few I find even with decades of practice few actually reach as deep a sense of clarity of the human condition as Camus did in the myth of sysiphus that maybe meditation is not the only way to go about living a mindful life as some might have others believe. It can be a great boost if used correctly but too often practitioners are looking for enlightenment and miss out on the actual point of the practice itself which is to be mindful. Hence why when they lose the seperation of self and world they tend to think they know more then is allowed them. Don't know mind is so rarely understood. Pansychism is the rage. It seems Camus may have been better served not falling into such delusions. There is fortune there is misfortune and there is the challenge. And Camus has met that challenge well in my eyes. A man that can learn so much without ever having meditated must have took his mindful awareness seriously indeed. But this is merely my opinion.
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Camus states that everyone fears the desert born of the absurd. I was born in that desert molded by it I found it to be quite beautiful and the rock itself to be most worthwhile. I can not only imagine Sisyphus happy but from my perspective I can say I found it to be an utter delight to not only lift the rock but to learn how to lessen it's burden on others.
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@@TheTarutau lol that last phrase makes you sound like Bane. I gotcha tho, I also used meditation as a means of enlightenment and only recently am learning there is not much to discover about the world except by learning oneself. Everything is just a matter of perspective, kinda crazy how much it influences everything in its sight.
@@DarkAngelEU I dislike the term enlightenment I think I've only heard of one person define it properly by the name of shinzen young. My original intention was to never teach since most of them are highly religious and I don't want to step on their toes. But I looked around and I often wonder if I should join the unified mindfulness system but as an existentialist not sure how well I would fit in since they are mostly all pansychist. But at least the old man realizes it's not what people think it is. You should check out his ten ox pictures explanation and his enlightenment downsides video. Oh and enlightenment maps and models. That's the one that did it for me. A teacher that cannot realize that most maps and models are highly flawed at the current moment is not worth their salt in my opinion but he did so he sees farther then most.
I'm preparing a presentation about Camus and Sisyphus for my A-Levels right now and I have to say this Video is definitely the best I found on this topic yet. Beautiful drawn, perfectly explained and a reference to everyones daily life, just perfect!
"Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? No, it requires revolt." heath ledgers joker in a nut shell.
I feel like to have this take you need to severely misunderstand both this video and Heath Ledger's Joker
@@biggusdickus1689 "Having started from an anguished awareness of the inhuman, the meditation on the absurd returns at the end of its itinerary to the very heart of the passionate flames of human revolt. Thus I draw from the absurd tree consequences which are my revolt, my freedom and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death - and I refuse suicide." It is quite obvious that the realization of the absurd necessitates revolt, then. I suspect that to have your take you have to be extensively unfamiliar with the original text by Camus.
@@eskybakzu712 I admit an undeniable unfamiliarity with the source material, I just didn't understand the parallels between this philosophy and that of the jokers, at least based on my limited knowledge on the topic. It's also possible that the Jokers philosophy is more nuanced and open to interpretation than something like camus, because Jokers can only be fleshed out insofar as they can fit it workably into the dialogue of the movie. I think the main issue here (at least in regards to the OPs comment) might be how one chooses to define revolt; as you, me, the OP, and Camus may have radically different implications in saying something like "the realization of the absurd requires revolt." I made my comment without thinking about any of this of course however, so thank you for your response. It has inspired me to keep reminding myself to read camus eventually.
@@eskybakzu712 The Revolt is philisophical, the act of deciding to be happy and that all is well not literal revolt. Just like he talks about philosophical suicide and not just literal suicide
Always amazes me how "existentialism" gets dismissed as "teenage angst philosophy" ... It's almost as though people don't want to acknowledge that life really is absurd, and this is all there is.
Yeah as a History nerd I think the one big absurd thing that sticks out the most is Billy Joels we didn't start the fire in that people have this attitude towards the Young as if we're where the world started to go Crazy but juvenoia(aka fear of the young a portmanteau of juvenile + paranoia.) has been with us since the days of Socrates and after all he was executed for allegedly corrupting the youth. The Baby boomers were feared and hated by their elders in the greatest generations as us millennials are feared and loathed by the baby boomers and to be blunt us millenials are NOT TRYING TO start Fires we're trying to FIGHT the fires but unfortunately they've been with us for as long as humans have kept records.. The World has always been MAD as in NOT SENSIBLE , the opposite. And We didn't just fuck it up - it was fucked long before we came along.
When as a boomer teenage angst was revolution for the hell of it.
I would like to just point out that Camus was particularly an absurdist. A large part of The Myth of Sisyphus is a critique of existentialism, particularly religious and Sartrean existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre saw absurdity (or "nausea") as a fundamental property of our existence whilst Camus instead held that it is an essential facet of our relationship with the world. Christian existentialism on the other hand is harmful to Camus as it requires a leap of faith. In the essay, Albert points out that existentialists betray themselves by appealing to the transcendent, fashioning meaning to be something of a god in its own right.
You can't "acknowledge" life is absurd for the simple fact that it's a subjective conclusion. That's like 'acknowledging' pizza isn't always amazing. What existentialists don't seem to understand is that most people genuinely don't give a crap about the fact this is all there is. They realize the importance of the things that are and give it their full attention, instead of ruminating about what isn't.
@@Fonzzz002 you should be a professor.
This is so beautiful! Both the narration and the animation. Thank you.
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THIS IS AWESOME!!! I CANNOT FIND THE BEST WORD TO DESCRIBE IT!!! This deserves more views. Finally! someone made a simple and understandable view of "the myth of Sisyphus." Good Job maam....
That was extremely well done. Amazingly presented and entertaining to watch while relaxing at the same time. Thank you!
You spoke with such cadence, and the music... I just got a little teary eyed at the end :')
You have done a great job in distilling the meaning of the essay. The animation is well done too. Bravo.
Really helped me understand this for AP Lit, thank you! Awesome job!
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I really loved your video. I've read the book and other Camus' works and I interpret it a bit different (let's say not so optimistic). But the narrative, the pace and the (your?) voice in your video provide a more blissful feeling to it. Would be nice to see more of these.Cheers
This is really helpful and easy to understand, way better than a lot of other videos. Thank you very much for posting this.
Beautifully done. The end made me cry. I damn sure didn't cry when I read the myth of Sisyphus.
I did, but that's just because I couldn't understand it
This Video was awesome, thank you for your great work and effort. This made the material so much more digestible than most professors would have made it. I hope you become a Scholar one day.
Great video! I really like the combination of philosophy and your drawing.
You brought additional clarity to his thoughts. well done
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Such a beautiful video. It's really great how you were able to described this topic in such a understandable way.
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I don't know why but It is the second time I hear an enlish speaker trying to understand Camus without much success. I guess that, to understand a frenchman you must speak french as well. First, the title is wrong because for Camus it is not the universe which is absurd but the confrontation between our quest of meaning and the total indifference of the universe about it. Also, the myth of sisyphus is not about creating your own meaning in life but to accept that life has no meaning but it is still worth living because we can find happiness as camus said "one must imagine sisyphus happy".
Exactly that! Thank you, like really thank you. Camus doesn't say, anywhere, that you can create your own meaning. He says that you can live a happy life without it. And for me he doesn't even answer his basic question about suicide. He doesn't contemplate suicide per se. The question he's actually answering is whether the lack of meaning would necessarily lead one to suicide, and although he accepts that suicide happens for sentimental reasons, he approaches the matter logically. So, in fact all he's saying is that if you want to live you can very well live without a meaning.
Yes. This is why absurdism is not existentialism. No meaning. Just tension.
Nevertheless, Existentialist themes still run through his text. Otherwise he would be writing Nihlism with some fanfare. I think that in trying to define Absurdism as something totally separate from its growth from Existentialism, people morph Camus' point to a logical extreme. What I see Camus advocating for is a rebellion against the fact that life has no (inherent) meaning, and still being human in the face of this indifferent universe, as was said earlier in this thread. Reading "Sisyphus" makes people overlook the fact that a man like Dr. Rieux from Camus novel, "The Plague", recognized the absolute defeat he would face in trying to save people from the disease that appears in the novel. What makes this sort of man an absurd hero is that instead of saying that nothing could be done to prevent death, he finessed the typical apathetic reaction to it and rather tried saving as many people as he could. And they must have meaning-their meaning is their faith in humanity. Because it's all we have, in the end. You might believe in a God, you might not, but what is certain is that you shouldn't forget that nobody but humanity is worth believing in, for Camus. That is the reason why Mersault rides gallantly into the gallows where he's greeted with jeers of hate, and interestingly the same reason why Camus wrote about the simple beauty of brown bodies overtaking the beaches of the mediterranean with passion. This is how you imagine Sisyphus happy. Why else would he continue to roll the rock down the hill?
This actually makes a bit more sense than the actual video
Honestly I was interested in what you had to say, but then you went "I guess that to understand a frenchman you must speak French as well". Typical French with your superiority complex. Not to mention that both your points were not really important to the philosophy, they're just details. If you get them wrong, the theory still works. No need to be such a stuck up snob. Thanks
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Wonderfully explained!
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I couldn’t help but cry. Damnnnn... this hits right in the feels, every time!
This was super helpful for my philosophy final, thank you!!
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I half agree with your argument, and respect the abstract approach of existentialism.
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Thank you so much for making this visual. I barely finished reading the book and it I was struggling to connect the concepts in a coherent way. You bring it all together very well.
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mmm, i don't know, sounds like optimistic absurdism to me. [ great video by the way, thank you ]
Well Albert Camus was an absurdist so yeah, I would agree.
_ doomkr6ft Camus said that we must picture Sisyphus happy in order to be content with the endless struggle. It’s not optimistic, maybe just more content
@@carsonr5359 Sisyphus MUST be happy because he tried. It's in trying and learning from your flaws that makes one happy and does their job better the next time. Problem is, that rock always falls down, again and again, so the question here is: why even try if it never amounts to any results? The result is falling, that pause of relief you get from watching it tumble down into the deep and then chasing it, only to roll it back up once more. It's the only way to defeat the gods at an eternal punishment.
I think he wrote this for people who feel aimless, given the myth and its context, and maybe as a self-critique (he was a very hedonistic figure) to some degree. That's probably why he still appeals to teenagers so much, because at that age people most often feel aimless, in search of an identity and feel like adulthood is some kind of punishment, a task set out for them. But adulthood is wonderful, all this angst suddenly makes way for exploring other emotions and most often it is built on the interests you had as a teen, invigorated by a rediscovery of childhood. So yes, in the end Sisyphus probably will be smiling if he wasn't chained to his rock for the rest of the afterlife but a human who reads Camus lol
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation,” I am Sisyphus
This video is so amazing
Thanks for this video. I'm trying to read this book, but I haven't studied philosophy as a formal discipline and it's difficult for me to understand.
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Very good video. I saw that this channel has very less videos. Do you have any other channel? I love this kind of content. Thanks for the effort.
I enjoyed this video. Well done
Such a great video. I still can't fit the whole idea of the beauty of absurdism in my head, but I'm trying.
Awesome! Thumbs up!
This was fantastic. Would you recommend I read any of Camus' other work first to have a foundation, or is The Myth of Sisyphus approachable from the get-go?
if you're still looking, start with The Stranger, then read Sisyphus
Every time I watch this video I become emotional and teary...
That bloody rock is back. Again.
That was really great thank u
Lovely!
What a great summary! Any plans to do other philosophers.. perhaps something from Slavoj Zizek? Or maybe even Stephen Jenkinson?
This is actually a very good video. Like really good I am going to see it again.
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if he's still pushing that rock his fate most definitely doesn't belong to him.
thank you so much.
Really good. Liked and subscribed, will probably also share.
Cheers.
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I love the way in which you explained it, it made such more sense to me. I'm currently studying Animal Farm by George Orwell at school. I just cant help think of how sisyphus resembles boxer. Anyone else? Could someone explain it in a more coherent way?
I think you can definetly interpret Boxer's behavior as similar to Sisyphus. Been several years since I read the book, but I remember being marveled at Boxer's loyalty. His willingness to sacrifice himself to the community is very touching. It also has the communism aspect over it though; "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Boxer is the strongest workforce on the farm, he is the only one who can built the windmill (if I remember correctly), and he is willing to do so in order for the community to hold together. I don't remember if he is happy in the end? Doesn't he die? I think that's the part where it may differ from the Sisyphus myth, as he doesn't interpret the behavior as "all is well" in the end if I remember correctly. He may seem like a mindless worker, but in my eyes he self-sacrifices for the community. As a Psychology student I can also read som status signaling behavior into it, but I think that my answer is extensive enough already.
Thank you for taking the time here to help! It's awesome what you have done here with Animal Farm :)
That seems like a beautiful similarity you have pointed out. Boxer, however, is unaware of the repetition of the task and has a hope. The consciousness of the meaninglessness does not exist for him. He has a certain hope in him. Wonderful!
rick and morty brought me here, this is so amazing, well done!
Mateo Querol but Rick and Morty has nothing to do with absurdism
@@tala5511 not really no, absurdism is optimistic I feel the show would be more accurately defined by nihilism
Background music is refreshing :)
this is very helpful thanks
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I don't see my comment, so I will make it again, lol. I could listen to you talk for all eternity, Marker Ninja. An excellent soul massage.
I love this video, but had a hard time paying attention with the music. Is there a version without it for those of us with ADD?
Damn, “trapped in the machinery of fate.” Hit me heavy
work will set you free
In modern language:
"Everything is awesome!🎶"
Good stuff.
Just re- watched this. Its hugely meaningful and you portray it in such a brilliant fashion. Keep it up.
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Ma'am great animation,presentation, narration... we all have our boulders to tackle...how true...life meaninglessness to be converted into a meaningful existence...& not to forget...end should be with All is Well...!!!!
so you've come, Mike