ANTAKALIPA

Meursault and Sisyphus: Living Without Appeal in an Absurd World Albert Camus’s The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus are not merely companion texts; they are two expressions of the same philosophical act. One dramatizes the absurd through narrative, the other theorizes it through philosophy. Together, they offer Camus’s most uncompromising answer to the problem of meaning in a world stripped of transcendence, God, and final justification. If The Myth of Sisyphus asks whether life is worth living once meaning collapses, The Stranger shows us what such a life looks like when lived to its bitter end. At the heart of both works lies Camus’s concept of the absurd: the confrontation between humanity’s desperate need for meaning and the silent indifference of the universe. The absurd is not a feeling, nor a property of the world alone, but a relationship—a tension that cannot be resolved without either intellectual dishonesty or self-destruction. Camus insists that this tension m...

antakalipa the philosopher We all try, we all piqued with imperfections. Life is a subjective experience, no one can define it for us. We have to do it for ourselves. There is no blueprint for a successful life and happiness is a fleeting experience. One thing is certain though, life is suffering and consciousness a burden. We born into a world that is in different to us and we all going to die. Boredom is inescapable and persistent and God might turn out to be our greatest lie. We need him to attain a state of sanity because without him, we have nothingness. Life can't be nothingness, it has to mean something. Science attempts to solve the how but can't explain why, because how can consciousness explain itself? It's an impossibility, like biting your own teeth. I think, therefore I am, good try Renee Descartes but what is this "I", how can we be sure of it? Maybe life is a simulation, we are certainly programmed by socioeconomic factors. It's a fa...

Love II: Transference  The subject of love makes me cringe; it’s nervy, rocky, unstable, without foundation, loose and unintelligible. It’s too risky with little promise of a positive yield. It’s like constantly having your legs open – not wise, it makes you a target. However I attribute the stars in the sky to love – it’s too magical. Your unconscious mind is in free-flow like being intoxicated 24/7. It targets the subconscious. In his book “Group Psychology” the godfather of psychology Sigmund Freud had this to say; “If one can design propaganda or psychological operations that bypass the conscious and rational faculties of the individual, targeting instead suppressed emotions and hidden desires, it is possible to move people to adopt beliefs and behaviors without them being aware of the underlying motivations leading them on.” Smoke on it.  It’s brave and stupid; and no one likes a hero. You leak vital and critical information about yourself. My condolences to t...

Nietzsche II I think that Friedrich Nietzsche is the most beautiful person there ever lived. He was incredible! I love Nietzsche. He was very peculiar, so out the box, so passionate. There’s so much meaning in a Nietzsche sentence; he was so skilled at painting a picture with words. You could feel the passion in the words – he used exclamation marks like they were full stops. And with every sentence you feel your spirit getting uplifted, you feel yourself becoming a better person. He is such a gift to humankind. “What doesn’t kill you, will only make you stronger” oh my goodness! That is so Nietzsche. He believed to really exist is to manifest your talents and virtues – “Becoming the person you really are.” It’s so amazing that he had all these thoughts considering that he lived in isolation most of his life. He was cheerful and upbeat for a person who suffered so much. He lived alone and was beastly sick throughout his adult life. He was rejected by the woman he loved afte...

Nietzsche Nietzsche's philosophy was grounded in psychology and human nature, he was a master of human nature. He was a big fan of Arthur Schopenhauer but didn't agree with the tone of his work because it centered around persimism and nihilism, the idea of why bother since life is meaningless. Nietzsche's work is an answer to Schopenhauer's work, it is positive, practical and leads to a life of self-actualization. He was a genius, a man ahead of his time. He correctly predicted the 21st century, this is incredible for a man who was born in the 19th century. I see his observations playing out in life. He saw that the human spirit/soul would be under threat. He saw the decline of Christianity and the rise of nihilism. He saw the reliance of pills, the Soma that Huxley referred to on Brave New World. He saw the depression and society anxiety sweeping the West. He saw the loss of morals, ethics and meaning. He saw that man would be passive and moved by novelty a...