Writer: Albert Camus, Part 02

I wanted to get to The Absurd – Camus, Kierkegaard & Dostoevsky | Existentialism for Camus' answer to nihilism:

While Dostoevsky proposes suicide as the only logical response to an awareness that God does not exist, Camus proposes that the man without God must not kill himself, but realise instead that he is condemned to death, and live his life embracing the absurdity of that knowledge.

The article provides a very good explanation of how Camus reached that point and where he goes from there. 

Existential despondency continues from the 20th Century into the 21st. Suicide, physical or psychological, remains at the forefront of modern life. I have a certain belief about climate change deniers: they havea lemming-like appetite for self-destruction. Drug addiction is a form of suicide. For all too many the spiritual concept of God loses to the reality of reality without beauty or grace or hope.

And therein lies the lesson I learned and forgot until I was forced to figure out how to keep living: create, do not fool ourselves into believing existence itself is evil.

sch 4/12/22