Note to “Book Recommendation, July 17, 2025”

Camus argued that even the greatest works of art and philosophy all emanated from an absurd thought. We encounter the absurd everywhere we look and turn. But to become cognizant or aware of the absurd also stirs a level of consciousness and thought that is not borne out of someone ordinarily, which then leads to the question of whether life is even worth living or not. Thus, all of philosophy and thinking or all of philosophy and thought revolves around the question of whether life is worth living or not. There is apparently no other question when we come to think of it. But to think of such a question or to conjure it up undermines everything around us and reduces all of it to the absurd. And this is when we have to draw our final conclusions about both ourselves and the external world around us.