Ep 141 - Disappointed with the dismissal of challenging ideas
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“I recently read Albert Camus’ ‘Myth of Sisyphus’ and it inspired me to listen to 4 or 5 podcasts on the subject to hear more perspectives. I was excited as this podcast started at the claims of teachers wanting to dissect it but found a hollow interpretation of the text absolutely overcast by religious bias.
First and maybe foremost of my frustration with the episode, the hosts spend it describing the philosophy as nihilistic when the essay is clearly about absurdism. It’s literally in the titles of the sections so I’m very confused as to how or why they missed this key point. While nihilism and absurdism share some ideas on the nature of reality the conclusion of the logic is essentially opposite. This brings me to the most confounding part of their discussion, Sisyphus himself, who they mention probably twice outside of saying the name of the essay. Graeme basically dismisses him “as the guy who pushes the rock” and they move on. It seemed clear to me that they were not interested in reading the text to understand the absurdist conclusions of Camus and discuss it, but rather to judge it from a deist viewpoint and dismiss it without actually chewing on it.
I like philosophy and find much of what I read to not align with my lived experience or opinion, but see value in challenging my perspective to include these channels of thought momentarily to analyze my own beliefs. I felt these hosts were either unwilling or unable to engage with absurdist ideals on the nature of being as their understanding of reality lives in a space far from believing or even considering the world has no meaning and the best we can do is find happiness is the struggle to push our own personal boulders of existence.
Overall I was disappointed with their analysis and probably won’t give them a chance again unless I find myself with few options for consuming discourse on a niche topic.”
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09/17/22
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