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BBC IdeasWhat is the point of life? What if life has no meaning at all? Writer and critic David Quantick explores the absurdness of absurdism.
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@evergreenmusic9853
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM42
@thomasLivesInANewCountryNow
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWhy haven't you mentioned Camus? He is essential in this ideology.
@wisdommatrixs
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMNothing Like BBC kicking Knowledge
@teondrehughes670
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMJust found out I e been an absurdist for a couple years now
@ngocquenguyen1561
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM"No Meaning! No point! No worries!" should be framed and hung up in every houses.
@boxingjerapah
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMCamus nailed it. /The end.
@FelixKolodziej
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI.. wasnt expecting that. I was looking for Informationmanagementsystems but… well.. You take, what you get.
@jonathanjollimore4794
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMDidn't know about absurdism till only a few year ago I noticed how absurder things were on my own
@hamez1300
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM1:08 Camus argued strongly against suicide though so I doubt he would agree that it’s “just the same”, although I might be misinterpreting him.
@rutherhood5961
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI fkn love absurdism, I remember thinking in high school that nothing mattered and that was fine, I then discovered absurdist theatre and that became my meaning
@Conn30Mtenor
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMMonty Python.
@AndrewStergiou
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMthe producer's definition of Absurdism is not standard as they substitute Nihilism for the Absurdism, I don't think that is not a mistake that BBC would make.
@User_forbidden
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMThis is "kinda" stupid.
@kephalopod3054
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWhat is the meaning of meaning?
@lilithmarie535
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI live by it iz what it izzz
@Jake-hg3bq
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMRead Slaughterhouse 5
@rumpertthejester3491
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMSo, absurdism is the only philosophy that actually results in the creation of a useful product (absurdist entertainment). How…absurd!
@NarutoUzumaski
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMThe cycle of absurdism
@lamy1159
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM👍👍👍
@femstora
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMThis is just what I needed so liberating
@farahsafi5291
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI always wonder how people who doesnt believe that this life has meaning could survive living
@64_bit80
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMi read an awesome comment about absurdism:
"Life is a huge box of lego. There are no instructions. Dudes assuming it all assembles into a 100 foot Jesus, or a utopian playhouse may be right, but it's a one in a gajillion shot.
So build a Millenium Falcon, then break that shit to pieces and build a submarine, then a turbogoat and a whistle-factory, then a tapdancing-lapdancing-fire-breathing-toucan. Accepting the pointlessness of the project is the way forward."
@littlebrunch1727
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMAmogus
@AbeyDRincon
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMIsn't this just existentialism?
@abhishekgs
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMAlbert Camus, The Fall is also absurd novel.
@joshbruning7808
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWhy do people say zed for the letter z
@Kajenx
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWhoever wrote this video didn't do their research. "Life has no meaning," is called Nihilism, not Absurdism. Absurdism is a philosophy that accepts humanity can't find a logical basis for meaning, even though finding things meaningful is an inevitable part of human life. So absurdists say to accept the absurdity of the situation and simply live a meaningful life WITHOUT justifying it logically. The word "absurd" means "something that is illogical or irrational." So Absurdists decide to be absurd: they live a meaningful life even though they have no way to describe that meaning with logic. Personally, I don't see any difference between Absurdism and Existentialism. In both cases they embrace meaning and purpose for human life, even in the absence of rationality and logic. Nihilism is fundamentally different because it rejects meaning altogether as an illogical construct and a fabrication from human emotions.
@billgates7074
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMno no no no, finding your own meaning is existentialism. absurdism is not finding a meaning but existing despite not having one because what the heck why not
@paigeherrin29
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWoah, finally! How did I not know about this? I’ve been told I’m an existentialist, I’ve been told I’m a nihilist. I just kinda thought I was atheist. Turns out, it’s absurdism. Who knew? I feel like this information is literally what I’ve been trying to explain when I’m asked about being atheism. Like could be verbatim. I.did.not.know.this.was.a.thing. I’m gonna check out Camus.
@gwilwilliams5831
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI’ve just discovered that I’m an absurdist. It’s only taken me 70 years to find my label. This is absurd.
Incidentally I’d just like to say that two of my favourite films are Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove.
@reversefulfillment9189
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMWhy I love Tim and Eric.
@lisalopes9890
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI’m an absurdist and still believe in a God.
@god1770
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM1:35 were those stripped blue graphics on the screen placed on purpose as a reference to Camus' Stranger?
@jan-owennugent1932
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMI love Camut. He’s so COOL
@sphericalcow2762
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AM"less rhinoceros-based"
@krishnachaitanyav7452
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMTelugu Vallu unnara?
@ryanratchford2530
03/10/2025 - 12:29 AMLots of types of philosophy inspires media in all mediums. That's basically what Art is