Camus and the Absurd Life
Camus had a simple observation: we want life to make sense, but it doesn’t. We keep asking “why” about everything. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why are we here? What’s the point? The universe doesn’t answer. It just sits there, indifferent. This mismatch — between our need for meaning and the world’s silence — is what Camus called the absurd. We’re like people shouting questions into an empty room, then getting frustrated by the echo....