Nah, never forget, Sisyphus had meaning in his life, he helped a kidnapped daughter, he secured an ever lasting spring of water for a village… the gods punished him because he kept tricking them and helping himself and other people, masses of normal people.
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sundray@lemmus.org 11 hours ago
You dropped this, fam.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
sundray@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
He chose to do those things, so… you could say he created his own meaning in the midst of an inherently absurd and meaningless universe? 😉
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yep, that’s the crime, he rejected their bullshit systems, and they can’t have their own illusion destroyed - that they’re inbred irrational, jealous, bottomless pits of power hungry idiots that serve no purpose and shouldn’t be worshipped, but removed from power. he threatened to reveal their illusion and to show people they could make big differences and change the system without the powers of the Gods, so they imprisoned him with meaningless slave labor.
W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Dropped it… not againn.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
“Imagine Sisyphus happy” reeks of corporate middle management extolling the virtues of grind culture to their underlings. I’ve never thought it was a good argument. Just a cheap cop-out for people who can’t face the never-ending barrage of existential despair that comes from truly, deeply questioning the meaning and purpose of life.
Like “Here, find meaning in this menial labor that you’re compelled to do by society!” No, you mindless automaton, the whole point of my existential despair is that I’ve seen through the superficial layers of appearances to grasp the utter meaninglessness at the core of everything. I’m not gonna pretend that I haven’t seen through it and stop questioning things just because it’s uncomfortable.
softwarist@programming.dev 1 hour ago
From the Wikipedia summary: