Broke. Rolling a boulder up a mountain.
Woke, using boulders to roll field artillery up the mountain, then bombarding the French colonialists.
I think the metaphor makes sense, it's just misunderstood. In the story of Sisyphus, the boulder isn't a punishment, it's a stipulation. The only way he can leave the underworld is if he gets the boulder to stay at the top of the mountain, he could stop at any time, but that would be resigning himself to his fate. Sisyphus is pushing the boulder to spite the gods, and that gives his existence meaning.
I suppose, but that's kinda in the eyes of it's beholder, isn't it? My take away from "The Myth of Sisyphus" was that existence is terrible and absurd and so we should use any shred of meaning that we can find to ground ourselves, accept the absurd and continue existing.
I'm not really a huge philosophy guy though. I know a lot of people, especially on the left, don't like Camus. I only read the one book, and read it immediately after a close friend of mine died, so that might have been a major lens influencing my perception of it.
Wasn't it a punishment for trying to cheat death an ultimately pointless and futile endeavour so his punishment is to spend his afterlife how he spent his life
Yes and no. iirc Sisyphus escaped the underworld twice before. The third time he ended up there it was specified that the only way he would be able to leave again was if he was able to balance the boulder on top of the mountain. Sure it's ultimately futile, but the idea is that Sisyphus isn't required to push the boulder. He could stop an any point and accept his fate, but out of spite and willfulness Sisyphus continues to push the boulder with the hope that he may one day be able to escape for a third time.
or he's trapped in a negative and proud habit and can't just abandon his fruitless pursuit and enjoy what he can about his situation. All his spite and pride only hurt him
It could be worse. His punishment could've been "Sit forever in place.", now that would suck.
One would assume that you can move around while doing remote work, but yeah, sure.
I’m lucky enough to do remote work and sometimes I just take a break from working and do some chores around the apartment, so yeah
I don't think the last line means that Sisyphus must be happy, but that for there to be meaning for each of us the reader, we must imagine him with meaning in his life. Many of us are confined to drudging routines and suffering, the universe is as absurd for Sisyphus as it for us.
Anyway, I kinda like the essay, hence the name
imagine misunderstanding sisyphus this badly and having the goddamn gall to make a career as an intellectual out of it
i imagine sisyphus was happy because he was working out 24/7 and cumming all day and night in the arnold sense
https://youtu.be/BdVCfDioTcY
