Objective Meaning & the Drugged Sisyphus

#philosophy #ethics #sisyphus #camus

[ai_serf]

The Sisyphus thought experiments are fantastic. I remember when I first heard the idea that you could develop a relationship with the boulder and create an entire life between you and it, à la Wilson. Žižek also reminds me of Lacanian philosophy; if misery becomes your baseline, are you truly miserable? Now we're adding in the idea of drugs and their philosophical ramifications. I love it. Thank you for this great and interesting topic.

[eternaldoorman]

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[MrSpinteractive]

This was very thought provoking, thank you!

[bokai]

Isn't that the whole point of the book by Camus? To embrace the absurd?

[automan]

There is another point to be made. No hill is endless. Given enough time, and through technological advancement, Sisyphus can succeed! Go Sisyphus! Go!

[peterborkowski]

Is finding joy in the perfunctory task like Huxley's soma pill? The drugged today are using substances to make joy in having to work 3 jobs to survive? We have the religious version of work in which we do things as if we are doing them for God, and the socialist version in which we do things for the common good. Are you trying to combine these two--where meaning emerges from a form of work?