A GUIDE TO ABSURDISM: The Philosophy For Living Fully
Source: https://ralphammer.com/is-it-worth-the-trouble/
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@ChaoticZenGuy
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Nice philiosophy. 🎉
@StoopidMonkiy
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Feel like absurdism is just stoicism without the need to find a meaning. Making life even more chill 😂
@nonmediga
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
live to die was so direct😂
@Nicholas-qm2ss
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Currently watching this in a blackout
@Mark70609
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
The argument is around death. Just accept life in finite and there is nothing that you can do to change that. Get on with living your life the best you can and deal with your death as bravely as you can at the time.
@sonamchauhan2968
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Bgm is really cute and calming
@gerrylandyfilms
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
That’s a subjective statement.
Says who? Sony? It’s necessary in my work at times… It’s hugely helpful when working in an ai video workflows. You know that!
Gerald you must admit that there is a level of post flexibility that is better with open gate, and it doesn’t end there… Multiple aspect ratio’s, VFX, Anamorphic…
Sony is wrong about this one… They will cave…
@kennethholman9064
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
dumb ass
@Goldy69420
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Elliott Smith caught me offguard
@ColbertFanatic85
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Hard to imagine the world ever making sense as long as humans are running the show. There’s gotta be some statute of limitations on how long a species can fail upward before dolphins or pigs or something gets a crack at it.
@hugsandthanks1460
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
It doesn't answer anything in the end. Problem remains.
@illmatix-Uron
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
shit… I didn't know I needed this today but it really helps.
@mingyuanli9836
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
would be better if included Nagel's attack on Camus, to make the whole more clearer.
@udomtiprug6001
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
What is necessay is not absurd but wrong freedom or new foods is absurd..perhaps
@LexWelles
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Isn't it odd that every discussion of Absurdism is fundamentally identical and shallow? Yeah, people discuss the meaninglessness and the reaction to meaninglessness, but it's just the same words running in circles. Does life have meaning? No. Should we despair? Also, no. But we seem to divide Caligula and Rieux, despite them both representing an absurd hero. Sure, I agree with Rieux and disagree with Caligula, but they are different results of the same starting position subject to chaos. It may be a complex conundrum, but it's also incredibly simple.
@pairy5420
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Thankfully transhumanism will make this idea outdated, as long as we survive the singularity
@michaelshigetani433
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
this sounds very zen to me. Or Taoist. Thank you for this video
@AgnosticApologist
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
We're not just born to die. We're born to breed and then die.
@Shidouryuseis
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Absurdism is a very interesting side of philosophy.
@Jonnyism
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Life has too much randomness and chaos and absurd things about it. It seems like there is no one TRULY in control of this chaos. I know math is involved in the universe, but, it just feels like I'm in some flash game on Newgrounds or the Sims or Minecraft or something where there is no structure, I watch a serious video about someone's health of someone passing away from a brain aneurysm then I get an ad about how to fix your poop problems with fart sounds in it, like WHY would a God allow that to happen as I'm trying to watch a serious video? WHY that ad on the serious video? Makes no sense. Life IS absurd. I'm not sure if life lacks meaning, maybe randomness and chaos IS the meaning. Also I'm aware of the brain aneurysm fart meme but this has nothing to do with that, lol.
@ML14789
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?(Surah Muminun-Quran)
@uberdonkey9721
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Absurdism is undoubtedly important because much (not all) of our 'structure' in how we think and perceive things, is made up.
@CooksFSH
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
I have the biggest crush on Albert Camus- can't tell you how much his work has enriched my life
@damienmcleod2622
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Absurdism and no free will – a good old double whammy – ain't life great! I'm 80 years old, at least I have cop shows, and science and nature videos to wile away the time till the end, oh, and the trump horror story. Who knows, trump might be the end of me.
@robelso5646
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
No! This feeling that we've got it all wrong that wakes us up at night, that there are answers we don't know is a Divine wake up call designed to inspire you to embark on the journey for Truth! It's what inspired Avraham to look around and say everyones got it wrong! , drop all his biases and look objectively at reality. So to today, everyone has got it wrong, and we stop searching for answers because if society hasn't gotten it, it must not exist! Esteemed scientists publicly advocate their disbelief in God, which itself is absurd! On top of it all, people today who are struck by a powerful weight in their heart screaming the world must wake up discard it as a biological phenomena we've evolved into becoming part of the human condition. A moment of authentic thought, unbiased by it's consequences, would obviously reveal that the fact that anything exists is insanity. Because this 'anything' must have come from somewhere which itself must have come from somewhere and itself must have come from somewhere and eventually you reach a point where you realize it doesn't make sense that anything exists! At some point, there MUST have been a cause that created everything, yet itself was created by NOTHING! How absurd is that! But it MUST be true, because ANYTHING EXISTS AT ALL. !
Then people will come to that stunning moment of brilliance, and a moment later their biases kick in. They remember that the world accepts an 'absurd' perspective on reality which everyone commonly holds is true, and that they too wouldn't be blamed for leading a life without a greater calling, that they are permitted to live a hedonistic life because everyone else is to, and they completely drop that inspiring clarity they believed full heartedly one moment ago. I'm angry at Albert Camus, he sounds like a loser. He pioneered the train of thought that it's not worth it to think deeply.
@lazargajicic9115
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
We are born, we do something we think we need or want and we die. But in the meantime, you record many pictures and "experience" whatever there is. Totally without reason or meaning. But hey, it's always better to do something in person than to hear about it from someone
@The_local_goofy
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
I thought dread at decision making was always normal,and before learning about Absurdism,I believed in the philosophy of “We were born with no purpose,so we make our own”. Now,im opening up to different ones.
@Moon-Set-Lane
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
This reminds me of something i was once told, stuff happens so what, just keep going.
This fascinates me.
@CaptainSpandex
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Our existence may be a shit show, but it's OUR shit show, damnit. May as well enjoy the ride
@EricWenders
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
A lot of absurdist fiction lacks Camus' sense of hope. So maybe it'd be better described as nihilism.
@VolkColopatrion
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
to kill reason? people want to have the tragedy of that? to kill the second better god?
@MegaSim3
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
The only absurd and unreasonable things always involve other people tbh
@MagicRose03
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
I love Absurdism for being an absolute retort of transphobia and bigotry in general
@drbookie2169
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Why do you speak with vocal fry
@weee5
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
6:16 One Piece
@thugnificant-nate
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
3:46 my glorious king ❤
@romansoto9644
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Absurdism, on a fundamental level, is accepting irrationality and living however we deem morally good. Absurdism is the permission to make your own sense of morality and allow for evil under the guise of there is no evil since everything is meaningless. It is intrinsically illogical and if someone is a true absurdist, you can't reason with them for that very reason.
@uk7769
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
To me The Meaning of Life is a Monty Python movie. And I like to laugh more than I cry. So works for me.
@waterhotter9668
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Reminds me of what I heard around 2018 while trying to be psychic, so they said to have psychic energy you had to have immature energy to flow it from which worked well, im sure Camus will inspire a second wind of that nature I had X
@Generic_Phantom
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
6:15 Willing to abandon what?
@raimeyroberts
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
What a crock of shit. Lie to yourself enough until you believe it.
@robertpotter3578
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Like the video a lot. Don’t like the jazz guitar music. But I suppose it helps bring out that feeling of absurdity in me. That’s life!
@joshuabates7424
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
This is more true now than ever. Why do things seem to only get worse and worse?
@dloz216
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
I just can’t square the projection that the universe is inherently meaningless. It doesn’t require god or anything else like that, it just is and is beyond meaning. I resonate with the ideas of how we can live and overcome ourselves but I think a new term is needed.
@VrayCat
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 am
Absurdism and surrealism are often confused because both deal with irrationality and the breakdown of conventional logic, but they come from different philosophical and artistic traditions. Here's a breakdown of the key differences, along with some tips to help you remember them:
### Absurdism:
– **Philosophical foundation**: Absurdism is rooted in existential philosophy, particularly in the works of Albert Camus. It deals with the tension between humans' desire for meaning and the universe's apparent lack of inherent meaning.
– **Focus**: Absurdism focuses on the struggle to find purpose in a chaotic, indifferent world. It explores how people react to the "absurd" (the clash between human desire for meaning and the meaningless universe).
– **Tone**: Often bleak, questioning, or even darkly comic.
– **Key theme**: The meaninglessness of life and the search for meaning in a world that offers none. It's about accepting that life is absurd and continuing to live despite this realization.
**Tip**: **Absurdism = Existential Crisis**. Think of it as the "life is meaningless, but you keep going anyway" philosophy.
### Surrealism:
– **Artistic and literary movement**: Surrealism emerged in the early 20th century as an artistic and literary movement, with figures like André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte. It sought to express the unconscious mind and break free from the logical constraints of reason.
– **Focus**: Surrealism is concerned with depicting irrational, dream-like scenes that often have a strange or illogical quality. It's about tapping into the unconscious and presenting the world in ways that defy rational explanation.
– **Tone**: More whimsical, fantastical, or bizarre. It often has a dreamlike quality where strange images and juxtapositions appear.
– **Key theme**: The importance of exploring the unconscious mind, dreams, and irrationality. Surrealism challenges conventional reality and aims to surprise or shock by presenting things in unfamiliar ways.
**Tip**: **Surrealism = Dream Logic**. Think of it as a "dream-like" world where things don't make sense but are intriguing or visually arresting.
### Key Differences:
– *Absurdism* is about the meaning (or lack thereof) of life and the struggle against an indifferent universe.
– *Surrealism* is about creating illogical, dream-like scenarios to challenge perceptions and explore the unconscious.
### Memory Tricks:
– **Absurdism**: "Absurd" sounds like **A**lbert Camus, and it deals with life's meaning—or lack of it.
– **Surrealism**: "Sur" (sounds like "surreal") as in **S**alvador Dalí, who painted wild, dream-like scenes.
By focusing on the philosophical foundation of absurdism (meaninglessness) and the creative freedom of surrealism (dreams and the unconscious), you'll more easily remember the key differences.
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