Taken from JRE #1455 w/Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/g4OJooMbgRE
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Taken from JRE #1455 w/Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/g4OJooMbgRE
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Camus is an absurdist
That book is the modern equivalent to the biblical vanity of vanities excerpt. It's a great read- he takes religion seriously too, he doesn't dismiss religion as ostentatiously non theists do today.
A great example of how the Russians still do the same old thing….
Existentialists do not believe life is absurd. That is what Camus though. Camus is not all existentialists, not all existentialists are Camus
I'm so annoyed and offended that these two grifters would invoke The Plague, a novel I've been teaching to undergraduates since our pandemic, whose themes of reason, compassion, and solidarity fly in the face in our selfish, partisan, and conspiracy-mongering response to Covid. In fact, the novel is a metaphor for fascism and can be read as an analog to the Trump regime and his MAGA supporters, whose racism would be the "plague" that lays dormant and awakens throughout history–if we aren't vigilant enough to respond to it when it appears. The novel is pro-vaccine, pro-public health, pro-science, and pro-medicine. In fact, the "serum" in the novel is tested on a young child who dies…and still, people take the vaccine because, unlike Rogan and ilk, they trust the medical authorities, they value reason and good, legitimate evidence over conspiracy and lies (McCulloch and RFK Jr.). The hero in the novel Dr. Rieux is Dr. Fauci, a man of science and integrity who has the unfortunate role of telling people the information they don't want to hear. The novel is anti-Fascist, anti-Trump, Anti-Nationalist, and Anti-racist. These two fools have no idea what the book is about. The novel condemns partisan opportunists like them. Clearly, Fridman hasn't "read" the novel deeply or understood it at all. Anyone looking to read meaningful commentary on the Plague rather than this drivel, please check out Laura Marris (the latest English translator of the novel) and Alice Kaplan's book STATES OF PLAGUE: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=states+of+plague+reading+albert+camus+in+a+pandemic&crid=3HYX5J0DBJU1T&sprefix=States+of+Plague+%2Caps%2C223&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_17