Introduction to Camus: The Absurd, Revolt, and Rebellion 

I'm pretty sure Camus never said that

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Taken from yahoo answers: "Don’t walk behind me: I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me: I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” - Misattributed to Albert Camus After conducting a year-long investigation on this quote, scrummaging through everything written by Camus ever made available to the public… It’s safe to say that Camus never said this. My investigation concluded when I met Joel Calmettes, a Camus expert and documentary director. This guy knows everything about Camus. He is also good friends with Catherine Camus (Camus’ daughter), who is responsible for the posthumous publications of Camus’ works. I asked him about this quote along with several other quotes that have been dubiously attributed to Camus. He was baffled. He had never heard of any of these quotes. The words appear in the lyrics to a Jewish children’s song, although I’m not sure if the lyrics predate Camus’ misquotation or vice versa: Don’t walk in front of me. I may not follow Don’t walk behind me. I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. And together we will walk in the ways of Hashem."

If Camus said it first this is not a misattribution.

DieHardGooner you will follow !!!

Perhaps he wouldn't smile but cry.

One would imagine Camus happy

I bet he’s the kind of guy that loves football

True

To my knowledge, that did happen, actually.

This comment could easily have been me. Great quote that's part of a life transformation in away for me. An attitude change that brought more meaning to me not less. Absurd as that might be

@Axel Faure Who cares. We all gonna die and there's no sequel to it. Life has no purpose. Neither it has any meaning. Now lets fight in comments.

@@Roy-mk9zl ok

@@Roy-mk9zl The meaning of life and nature of reality is really anything you put in your mindset.

​ Axel Faure duuuuuuuuuude chill out. "as a self-apprentice of stoicism"... you sound like your seeking recognition for the fact that your a stoic and have some lust for social recognition...

@@philipdimatteo the contradiction of his comment about proving that hes stoic while attempting to prove himself in youtube comments is proof of the absurd lmao

Ikr like why imagine him happy? Why can't we imagine him sad? There's nothing wrong with sysiphus being sad. It basically means that he is human

@@meritu985 where’s the utility in that especially when we can’t escape the climb. The stones heavier if you choose to see through the sadness lense. It’s all perspective I guess

+Sisyphus 55 You make great videos too.

Dude your videos are fantastic! Please keep uploading.

Steve2323ZX On a philosophical level, I disagree with this statement completely. What doesn't kill might just as ready make you weaker than you were before. Constant tribulations, doesn't always a strong person make. While the idea is/was intend (at least in my opinion) to be a way to view the world through adversity, adversity also can drain one of willpower and drive. Now making it easy is no better than this either. As with many things I think a balance ought to be struck between adversity and achievement defining future chances of success.

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@Shards of Shattered Halos Lacerate My Skinand it still applies.

David My last name. U can be made stranger and weaker simultaneously

@@matthewevans3718 lol right

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Yes, I definitely noted this myself. Impressive understanding of ideas and expressions of these which may be difficult to interpret.

True. So much learning. :)

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The Crimson Frenzy yeah tbf I'd agree with that. But still, I've found their videos to be informative.

Interesting

this my friend is the truth.

Take more LSD and climb into the phenomenal reality we all inhabit- no seat belts on that Mercy chair. Much Love to you and yours

...and I'd add : My every drawn breath an insult , an un- scratchable itch in the livid , festering , nether- regions of the tyrants very being .

+Terrible Tallrus I'm really glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

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Dostoyevsky?

The Creed

yes but incorrect in this particular video. Camus's theory does not state than life is absurd or that the human existence is absurd as wrongly mentioned in this video. A lot of video have been made about the absurd on youtube by people who seem to not understand what the Absurd is. It is a shame because they look well made, people sound satisfy to have learnt something but they have been misguided. The absurd is the confrontation between a meaningless life (not an absurd life) and our desire to give meaning to it. That is the Absurd and nothing else. Life being meaning less is a different proposal from life being absurd. Life is not absurd at all.

Most of it is meaningless I understand this. Just something to take my mind off of everything.

Flywheel Shyster Same here!

Here also

Correct.

I'd think so, anarchy= no sovereignty, genuine rebellion = no masters no slaves --> also no sovereignty

A tiny bit? Is there anarchism in Stirner? Or Nietzsche? Or, hell, Diogenes? Anarchism, as I see it, is the "ideology" of freedom.

@@jonasv.b.2647 idk I think individual sovereignty is extremely vital to anarchism. If I'm not sovereign over my self, am I not essentially a slave?

At the end of The Rebel, Camus actually proposes that Syndicalism (never clarified if it is just Syndicalism or Anarcho-Syndicalism) might have what it is we seek. So there may of been an anarchist in him after all.

I see it has a lot in common with Proudhon and Mutualism but comes from a more philosophical angle than political or economic one.

+Rhettofbodom He was critiquing any system which absolutizes the historical process, or in other words any system which "preserves a belief in the finality of history which betrays life and nature, which substitutes ideal ends for real ends." (The Rebel). In the 20th century the major socialist movements did just that, as did the fascist movements, and as do some regimes/movements today. So his critique was not limited to socialism, but did include the major socialist movements.

+towardsthesun Yeah I considered it more against historical determinism, which is definitely dogmatic in my view. But his existentialist anarchism I think blends well with a socialist/libertarian vision. :)

+Rhettofbodom long live the social revolution!

Rhettofbodom He was part of the communt french party

@@maxxvii2037 Unlike Sartre, who shut his eyes and ears to the reality of Stalinism, Camus - like other socialist intellectuals such as Orwell, Gide and Malcolm Muggeridge - had the integrity, humanity and philosophical consistency to disavow Marxism without sentimental compunction. He was in fact expelled from the French Communist Party in 1937.

Sysiphus was cursed by the gods and can't die but all was has to roll the boulder up the hill in all eternety and then watch it roll down again. That's a flaw in this analogy Sysiphus can't kill himself because of this curse, humans in turn can. I think I found a solution to this predicament somewhere but unfortunately I forgot where. Cheers

But he died over 60 years ago...in 1957. Math error?

@@coyotesong He died in 1960. 7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960 -Wiki

+TheVoidReturnsNull Thanks for pointing it out I notice a slight unbalance in the audio too. I'll keep that in mind for future recordings.

+stephen williams The exploration itself enriches us all as human beings! What say you, Academy?

+stephen williams I believe in this - “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” (Nietzsche)

+Academy of Ideas Nice, so you're open-minded and accept change in the face of changing circumstances. Good view.

+Academy of Ideas that's a fantastic quote. Got to love Nietzsche

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