Albert. Camus
The gods punished Sisyphus for constantly pushing a huge stone to the top of the mountain, and the stone rolled down the mountain because of its own weight. The gods believe that there is no more severe punishment than doing such ineffective and hopeless labor.
Homer said that Sisyphus was the cleverest and most cautious person and would eventually die. But there is another legend that he succumbed to the life of a robber. I don't see any contradiction. The difference of various views lies in whether to give value to the behavioral motives of ineffective workers in this hell. First of all, people rashly put him with the gods to condemn him and count their privacy. Ajina, the daughter of Atopos, was kidnapped by Jupiter. The father was shocked by his daughter's disappearance and blamed Sisyphus. Sisyphus, who knew the inside story, told Athops that he could tell his daughter the news, but the condition was to supply water to Collantes Castle. He would rather get a holy bath than lightning. For this reason, he was sent to hell, and Homer told us that Sisyphus took death by the throat. Proto can't stand the desolation and loneliness of the hell kingdom. He urged the god of war to free death from his victors.
It is also said that Sisyphus dared to test his wife's love for him before he died. He ordered her to throw his body in the middle of the square. No ceremony will be held. So Sisyphus fell into hell again. In hell, he was indignant at the wanton trampling of human love. She got proto's promise to return to earth to punish his wife. But when he saw the face of the earth again, felt the caress of running water and sunshine again, and touched the red stone and the wide sea again, he never wanted to go back to that gloomy hell. Bruto's decrees, anger and warnings did not help. He has lived on the earth for many years, facing the rolling mountains, the rushing sea and the smile of the earth. Then the gods intervened. Mercury came and grabbed the offender by the collar, pulled him out of his happy life, and forcibly threw him back to hell, where a huge stone was ready to punish him.
We have understood that Sisyphus is an absurd hero. He is an absurd hero because of his passion and suffering. He despises gods, hates death and is full of passion for life, which inevitably makes him suffer from inhuman torture that is difficult to describe in words: he devoted his whole body and mind to an ineffective cause. And this is the price that must be paid for the infinite love of the earth. People don't talk about Sisyphus in hell. These myths are created to make the image of Sisyphus vivid through people's imagination. On Sisyphus, we can only see such a picture: a nervous body repeats an action thousands of times: moving a boulder, rolling it and pushing it to the top of the mountain; What we see is a painful and twisted face, a cheek clinging to a boulder, a trembling shoulder covered in mud, a pair of muddy feet, completely rigid arms, and a pair of solid men's hands covered in mud. Through the efforts limited by infinite space and eternal time, the goal was achieved. Sisyphus then saw the boulder tumble to the world below in a few seconds, and he had to push it back to the top of the mountain. Then he went down the hill again.
It is because of this reply and pause that I became interested in Sisyphus. This face, almost as hard as a stone, turned into a stone by itself! I saw this man walking towards endless suffering with heavy and even steps. This moment is as short as breathing, and its arrival is as certain as Sisyphus's misfortune. This moment is a moment of consciousness. At such moments, he left the top of the mountain and gradually went deep into the lair of the gods. He transcended his own destiny. He is harder than the boulder he moved.
If this myth is tragic, it is because its protagonist is conscious. If every step he takes depends on the hope of success, then where is his pain? Today's workers have worked all their lives and completed the same work all day, which is as absurd as Sisyphus's fate. However, this fate is tragic only when workers become conscious. Sisyphus, a proletarian among the gods, who carried out ineffective labor and rebelled, was fully aware of his tragic situation: that was what he thought of when he went down the mountain. The sober consciousness that caused Sisyphus's pain also contributed to his victory. Without contempt, there is no destiny of self-transcendence.
If it is painful for Sisyphus to push stones down the mountain on some days, then this work can also be carried out in joy. This is not an exaggeration. I also imagine Sisyphus walking back to his boulder, and the pain begins again. When the imagination of the earth is too focused on memory and the desire for happiness is too urgent, then the pain rises in people's hearts: this is the victory of the boulder, and this is the boulder itself. Great grief is an unbearable burden. This is our night in Gethsemane. However, once the eloquent truth is admitted, it will fail. Therefore, Oedipus unconsciously gave in to fate first. And once he understood everything, his tragedy began. At the same time, Oedipus, blind and hopeless, realized that his only connection with the world was the fresh hand of a young girl. So he made such a shocking voice without scruple: "Although I have experienced hardships, I am over 30 years old, and my soul is deep and great, so I think I am happy." Oedipus of Sophocles and kirilov of Dostoevsky both put forward absurd victory rules. The wisdom of the sages is integrated with modern heroism.
If people want to find the absurdity, they will involuntarily think of writing some kind of teaching material about happiness. "Oh, what! There is such a narrow road ...? "However, there is only one world. Happiness and absurdity are two children of the same earth. It may be wrong to say that happiness must come from absurd discoveries. Because the absurd feeling probably comes from happiness. "I think I am happy," Oedipus said. This sentence is sacred. It echoes in people's crazy and limited world. It warns people that everything is not and never ends. It banishes a god who came into this world with dissatisfaction and a preference for ineffectiveness and pain. It also turns fate into something that should be arranged between people.
This is all the happiness of Sisyphus's silence. His fate belongs to him, and his stone is his business. Similarly, when the absurd man thinks about his pain, he silences all idols. In this suddenly heavy and silent world, thousands of wonderful little voices rise on the earth. Unconscious, secret calls and demands of various faces are the necessary opposites of victory and the price to pay. Without a shadowless sun, we must know the night. The absurd man said "yes", but his efforts never stopped. If there is a personal destiny, there will be no higher destiny, or at least, there is only one destiny that should be despised. Besides, the absurd man knows that he is the master of his own life. At this delicate moment, people return to their own lives, and Sisyphus turns back to the boulder. He looked at this series of unrelated actions and became his own destiny. His fate is his own creation, and under the gaze of memory, his death will be a fixed fate. Therefore, from the very beginning, the blind man believed that everything in human beings originated from humanitarianism, just as the blind man longed to see and knew that the night was boundless and Sisyphus would March forever. The boulder is still rolling.
I left Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! We always see the burden on him. Sisyphus told us that the highest piety is to deny the gods and remove stones. He also feels very happy. This world, which is no longer dominated, is neither a desert nor a value to him. Every particle on this boulder, every ore on this dark mountain, only forms a world for Sisyphus. His struggle to climb to the top of the mountain is enough to enrich a person's heart. Sisyphus should be considered happy.
Some people say that people spend their lives in a cave where they can't see the sun all day. Maybe you just don't know it. Several philosophers can come out and see the light of day, so can we go near the mouth of the cave? So you can also feel a glimmer of light.
Think about a problem
1. Imagine that several children are busy building a big sand castle on the beach, and a passer-by maliciously steps on a tower, causing a short but fierce conflict. Finally, the builders completed their exquisite fairy-tale buildings, and they were catching up with the rising tide and tentatively patting the outer wall. The builders watched carefully as the tall tower collapsed in the whirlpool. Then I lost interest, picked up my things and walked to my home by the sea. Why will the tower be destroyed and the whole sand castle be destroyed, but still fight and accept it calmly? How is this similar to Sisyphus and his The Rock?
2. Imagine a millionaire earning 1 billion,1billion or more. How much is enough? Is money the focus of attention? What does this have to do with Sisyphus?
If the gods are merciful, after Sisyphus moved the stone to that place, it first shook for a while, and then it was fixed. Think about Sisyphus's feelings. Are the gods really merciful Or are they planning a more terrible punishment?
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