Absurdism

You want meaning. The universe doesn’t care. That’s absurdism in one sentence. Albert Camus thought this tension — between our need for purpose and the universe’s silence — defines the human condition. He called it “the absurd.” Most people try to escape this. They find religion. They create grand theories. They pretend the universe has a plan. Camus said: don’t escape. Embrace it. Think of Sisyphus, rolling his boulder up the mountain for eternity....

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....