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Sophie Kerman's avatar

It might make you feel better that when I teach that chapter to my French students, there's invariably at least one student who argues that Sisyphus's supposed happiness is lulling us all into complacency, and Sisyphus should incite a revolution and smash the boulder, or just sit down on the mountainside and refuse to play their silly boulder-pushing games.

All is not lost!

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Donna Zuckerberg's avatar

that actually DOES make me feel better, as many stories about Gen Z do <3

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Phil H's avatar

Salutary to remember, though, what classics sound like to the normies. So, it's like a poem that you read forever, and you'll never understand it? About a bunch of gods that didn't exist? And when I finish it there's another one to learn? And I'm supposed to do this every day to make my brain swole?

I fear this is just another Dumb Thing Humans Do.

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Salma's avatar

I would like to point out that in “The myth of the Sisyphus”, Camus, ends it with the line: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." @ https://philliessgameschedule.com/

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Joan Wolkerstorfer's avatar

I’m with you on wanting my games to do something more than metaphorically say “Neener-neener-neener, you are a wiener!” and blow raspberries at me. So *weird* that I want, like, character growth or the ability to win at stuff sometimes without abandoning my family to do nothing but practice QWOP 20 hours a day or whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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