Remember Absurdism?
That's right: the sub-branch of the existentialist philosophy that dictates that everything in the life is meaningless outside of the scope of human definition, and that the conflict between trying to find meaning and the actual non-meaning of everything is known as the Absurd (with a capital A).
We read that hilarious (if bizarre) play The Bald Soprano, which begins as a clever commentary on insipid middle-class life and devolves into the shouting of random phrases. This has no meaning, and an Absurdist would argue that neither does anything else.
Also within the scope of Absurdism is the fact that one can never be certain of anything because there is too much in the universe to ever know, and that bad things will happen to good people randomly.
I'm not necessarily a proponent of Absurdism, but I don't think that everything necessarily happens for a reason either. It's more fun this way.
What do you think about Absurdism?
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