Climate warming, far right rising, democracy eroding, huges setbacks un humain rights, hate crimes exploding, biodiversity dying, activism more ans more criminalized, etc...it seem society is living its last moments, and doomerism looks like the only rational option. So what prevent you from being a doomer despite all of this ?
https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf
The gods cursed us to roll a rock up a hill. We don't know why and they probably don't either by now. I push the rock because doing so makes me hate them more effectively and at some point I might become strong enough to kill them for that. If I was arbitrarily born into 18th century France and my rock was to starve for the aristocracy, I'd push it because there's a guillotine over the horizon. I'm arbitrarily born into the late 20th century and my rock is to starve for the corporate aristocracy, I push it because I or someone like me will get to turn their bunkers into brazen bulls. At no point in history could I have been born without some rock to push and it'd always mean existential damnation for me, but I'd purify my hate pushing it.
damn so im not the only one who read some Camus recently? i'm not even an existentialist, i just find the work comforting
Even if I wasn't an absurdist at a universal atheistic level, it'd be hard to be a communist without being an absurdist at the societal level Camus is writing at. Trench warfare and line go up and electoralism are absurd things which drive you crazy enough to believe in them if you can't admit how arbitrary and meaningless they are. When you break from that idealism, Camus has the right confrontational framework for what comes next.