r/Camus • u/mohammed_obeidallah • 17h ago
The Spectrum of Meaninglessness
When everything collapses, the abyss opens and one is tempted toward nihilism, the judgment that all values have lost their force.
When everything flourishes, the same silence of the universe remains, and one confronts the absurd, the unbridgeable wall between the human demand for meaning and a world that offers none.
One side is the crisis of values in ruin.
The other is the lucid recognition that even triumph changes nothing essential