Philosophy’s Most Terrifying Idea | Albert Camus's The Fall

There are few philosophers more sought after than Albert Camus. His thoughts on absuridsm and living in a meaningless world have gone down in history for their insight and their radicalism. But today we are going to examine Camus's final published novel, where he gives a deep analysis of an existential crisis in the modern age, and how we might inadvertently be lying to ourselves about almost everything.
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00:00 The Fall of Man
01:58 A Supposedly Idyllic Life
08:34 Innocence Lost
15:55 Rebellion and Cynicism
21:33 The Judge-Penitent

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  • @unsolicitedadvice9198
    @unsolicitedadvice919825 күн бұрын

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  • @SlickDissident

    @SlickDissident

    24 күн бұрын

    "Judge Penitent"... "Jordan Peterson"... come on now. This is some endgame revelation shyte. Hyperstitious Aptonyms of this potency just hit a fine conspiratorial note of Epecurean sophistication, it pairs wonderfully w fine Cheese. See Thoth 🃏Hierophant🗝

  • @josephfox514

    @josephfox514

    20 күн бұрын

    Please I would love to hear your thoughts on a book called lectures on faith by Joseph Smith. Not that it's a deeply hard book but I'm curious about what your thoughts would be. It's short. Please

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @TwoDudesPhilosophy
    @TwoDudesPhilosophy25 күн бұрын

    Camus died in a car accident. In one of his pockets was a train ticket for the train he was supposed to take. In the other pocket a copy of the gay science of Nietzsche!

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    25 күн бұрын

    That's so cool! I didn't know that!

  • @thomasfaulkner1341

    @thomasfaulkner1341

    25 күн бұрын

    With a copy of Shakespeare, and his manuscript for _Le Premier Homme_ I believe…!

  • @TwoDudesPhilosophy

    @TwoDudesPhilosophy

    24 күн бұрын

    @@thomasfaulkner1341 now I have to check my source again! 😂 I’ll come back to this!

  • @sarantissporidis391

    @sarantissporidis391

    24 күн бұрын

    I think it was 1957 that A. Camus was nominated for the Nobel prize and he was going toe to toe with N. Kazantzakis Finally Camus won. Kazantzakis sent him a letter to congratulate him stating that it was the French who deserved the prize. A few days later Kazantzakis died. One day Camus wrote to Kazantzakis' widow saying that it was the Greek author /philosopher who actually deserved it and not him. A few days later, Camus was killed in a car crash.

  • @AD-zu8uc

    @AD-zu8uc

    24 күн бұрын

    Ironic to know he died in a pretty absurd way.. since his entire philosophy was based around this idea.

  • @colbyparker8926
    @colbyparker892614 күн бұрын

    I had an existential crisis several years ago that I am still struggling with. It's like waking up at a sleepover, but no one else will wake up with you. Not only did I struggle handling this "enlightended state" for lack of a better term but I struggled with the fact that I was alone and surrounded but those caught in the false fairytale of reality. After wide swings of personality and beliefs, I am as close to inner peace as Ive been in a long time. I will never be who I was but I am a much better person now that Ive gone through the agony of it.

  • @lynnfisher3037

    @lynnfisher3037

    13 күн бұрын

    Here's more unsolicited advice😂 The book "Dark Nights of the Soul" by Thomas Moore was instrumentalb

  • @talldarkhansome1

    @talldarkhansome1

    11 күн бұрын

    I'm feeling this way now.

  • @akoaoaisieke4802

    @akoaoaisieke4802

    10 күн бұрын

    I feel u my brother...

  • @colbyparker8926

    @colbyparker8926

    8 күн бұрын

    @talldarkhansome1 you will find your way. My grasp of reality, morals, and the things I thought made me myself were all shaken to their deepest core. feelings I long thought were dead came back, and I had to slowly process it. Don't allow anxiety or panic to creep in if that's happening to you. I did, and it was a major setback. Don't fight the process. Lean into it. You are by nature programed to run from "danger," but running from something like this does more damage than good. Let the emotions flow, try to understand and learn why this has triggered, question the things you have been told and seek answers, talk about your feelings with someone, let go of the past, practice mediation, remove addictions, read philosophy. On paper, it sounds so easy, but I know it's the most difficult thing a person can possibly go through. Good luck. Highly recommend looking into philosophy.

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @aforabe1197
    @aforabe119724 күн бұрын

    If I might take a crack at the question of what to do when faced with the uncomfortable truths outlined in this writing, I would say to grieve. Mourn the suffering associated with these truths, grow in compassion for oneself and others, and walk the path with those just starting to become aware. From one internet stranger to another, I hope you have peace

  • @hml25

    @hml25

    22 күн бұрын

    Yes it's a hard and long road that some take while other fall in despair quit the fascinating world we live in

  • @HeatherHolt

    @HeatherHolt

    19 күн бұрын

    What a solid comment ❤❤

  • @aeixo2533

    @aeixo2533

    8 күн бұрын

    Truth is subjective.

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @volkoff6357

    @volkoff6357

    Күн бұрын

    That's fucking gay. It's better to rage against the suffering and disappointment that is life.

  • @OrdnanceLab
    @OrdnanceLab24 күн бұрын

    Great video. It's quite amusing that plenty of high-brow types want to look down on Camus as just a writer, not a "real" philosopher. But the older I get, the more I appreciate his ideas, and his ability to be both ruthless in confronting the absurd realities of the world, but in a compassionate manner.

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @volkoff6357

    @volkoff6357

    Күн бұрын

    There is no point in his compassion. It, too, is meaningless.

  • @razercp9322
    @razercp932225 күн бұрын

    Look forward to every upload!

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    25 күн бұрын

    Thank you! I appreciate it!

  • @vasil05
    @vasil0524 күн бұрын

    The myth of Sisyphus was the first of his writings I read and the first sentence left me shocked for about an hour before I could go on to read the rest. After that i read the Stranger which I also greatly enjoyed. He has a fine pen.

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @programmingaccount9563
    @programmingaccount956323 күн бұрын

    Yikes. I had an existential crisis about 8 years ago and it ruined about 5 years of my life. I completely flipped. Took me a very long time to come back to a middle ground and find clarity. It’s remarkable or unremarkable how similar my story is to this man’s and I’m assuming many millions/billions of people throughout history who have gone through the same thing. It is unnerving how closely I relate to this character.

  • @JardineKarate1

    @JardineKarate1

    23 күн бұрын

    I’m going through much the same now. Great to read a comment from someone who ‘made it through’.

  • @katieandnick4113

    @katieandnick4113

    16 күн бұрын

    It’s colloquially known as a “mid life crisis”. Not thought to be unusual at all.

  • @P46430

    @P46430

    14 күн бұрын

    The root of it is pride (which has MANY different disguises: intellectual, social, economic, sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, superiority, independence, ambition, spiritual vanity, naturalism, cynical, pharisaical, timidity, scrupulosity, etc, etc). MANY, MANY people fall into the trap of one of these, but it’s all simply rooted back to pride. All these ‘midlife crises’ and ‘falls’ are when you are lucky enough (and not die for your mistakes) to get metaphorically smashed in the teeth for your attempt to bend reality to your ‘pride’, and you’re left lying on the ground, but still able to get up and have a chance to redeem yourself. And there is only one correct path against the most ancient enemy in human nature.

  • @programmingaccount9563

    @programmingaccount9563

    13 күн бұрын

    @@P46430 The issue was rooted in ignorance and arrogance, which I now recognize as my pride. I didn't find the right path immediately. Instead, I overcompensated and swung to the opposite extreme, becoming a completely different person. This drastic change led to paranoia, fear, antisocial behavior, and intense anxiety. I experienced daily panic attacks for a week and then continued to suffer from them frequently. It felt like I was in a constant state of free fall. This culminated in a horrific car crash caused by sleep issues, nearly resulting in my death. The police even told my parents that I was DOA (they werent suppose to say this from what I know) I survived but was left handicapped. Four years ago, this incident pushed me into therapy, which, along with medication, helped me return to a more balanced state. In retrospect, I realize my actions and feelings were blown out of proportion. What I perceived as horrendous wasn't as bad as I made it out to be. My guilt over minor rudeness felt like murder, which is something I'd never actually commit. It was a terrible period, and I wish it had never happened. I could have gotten there slower with therapy (which I was already going prior but not as extensive) and overtime figured out how I wanted to behave and found my normal without the horrific years after the incident

  • @programmingaccount9563

    @programmingaccount9563

    13 күн бұрын

    @@katieandnick4113 I understand why it's often called a "midlife crisis," but my experience felt far more intense and disruptive than what that term usually implies. It wasn't just a phase; it was a complete upheaval of my identity and mental health. The severity of my panic attacks, paranoia, and the resulting car crash went well beyond what I imagined a "midlife crisis" to be. Therapy and medication were crucial in helping me find stability again

  • @kevinsayes
    @kevinsayes24 күн бұрын

    This channel is such a gem. A hobby (?) of mine is not only widening my vocabulary, but learning ways to take a concept and repackage it for whomever my audience is, and so I like studying others’ vocab, cadence, analogies etc. Sam Harris has been a huge inspiration (among other reasons) for me and someone I find it pleasing and useful to emulate. Anyhow, you’re a master at turning thoughts into words. Love your work bro. Let’s get to a million!

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @simonus5039

    @simonus5039

    3 күн бұрын

    Something interesting to look at more closely would be this guy's hand movements while he is speaking. He seems to make different hand movements - up/down, sideways, open hands / closed hands, hands toward the viewer / away from the viewer, one hand / both hands - according to the kind of sentence he is saying, the content of the sentence, the mode, etc. It's quite interesting to look at, because it signals a lot to the viewer subconsciously

  • @khaoulamadani1223
    @khaoulamadani122324 күн бұрын

    It's so rare to find a youtube channel where you are willing to give a like before you finish the video

  • @unknowninfinium4353

    @unknowninfinium4353

    24 күн бұрын

    It's his looks. You wouldn't say this to a well thought out video by an indian janitor.

  • @khaoulamadani1223

    @khaoulamadani1223

    24 күн бұрын

    @@unknowninfinium4353 Don't del me whad de do

  • @unknowninfinium4353

    @unknowninfinium4353

    24 күн бұрын

    @@khaoulamadani1223 Oh I did not. I am pointing what you decided to do which was not what you said in your initial comment. Which also reveals you weren't here for what is said, likely. And which also says what kind of a person you are - Fake. Try jumping on other KZreadr's Philosophy.

  • @khaoulamadani1223

    @khaoulamadani1223

    24 күн бұрын

    @unknowninfinium4353 what a piity Mr how much ur concerned with solving the humanity problems . That you forget how to be respectful knowing the the only way to hide ur imperfections and ur inability is by claiming to see the hidden insight of people . Stop wasting my time and Don't be so miserable and put another comment down here .

  • @ProGamer-wj3oj

    @ProGamer-wj3oj

    24 күн бұрын

    @@unknowninfinium4353stop acting like a professional victim

  • @QuickM8tey
    @QuickM8tey24 күн бұрын

    Oh man, I'm so glad you're giving this book attention. I love it above all his other works, I've read it more than once. There is an obscure reason that Camus wrote The Fall and I rarely see it discussed even though it adds a whole other dimension upon Clamence's way of thinking. The Fall was intended at least in part to be an apology to Camus' wife. He'd openly cheated on her, repeatedly. She put up with their unusual marriage for a while but ultimately had a nervous breakdown and she'd tried to jump from balconies more than once in that time. She accepted his apology after he wrote The Fall and he went on to continue his illicit love affairs until his sudden death. On another note about the book itself, I can't help but think his former friend Sartre read The Fall and saw his own friend in all those conversations Clamence has with the reader. He referenced it as the least understood of Camus' books in a eulogy to the author and when asked about it later in life he claimed The Fall was his favorite book by Camus because the author hid himself inside it. I write these things not to illuminate Camus as a sick man but certainly a troubled one capable of profound introspection and honesty.

  • @kirandeep1534

    @kirandeep1534

    22 күн бұрын

    Ahh thanks for this knowledge 💜

  • @stxrry1832

    @stxrry1832

    17 күн бұрын

    How do you separate the art from the artist for I now would not be able to look past his actions and read his work? I am not saying that his work is bad, but a genuine question like how do you look past this and read his work

  • @AnimosityIncarnate

    @AnimosityIncarnate

    16 күн бұрын

    You just do it.... I'm the same way. I can't date anymore, the trust has been eradicated from my body. But the trigger, should be there and you should confront in when your ready in a healthy manner so you feel everything you deny yourself feeling. Art helps you understand others and yourself, and sometimes taking the plunge knowing this, can help shape you into a better person, you still hate the artists actions, but you see them as a whole individual, outside of those actions in a specific context. People always aren't bad.

  • @stxrry1832

    @stxrry1832

    16 күн бұрын

    @@AnimosityIncarnate Thank you so much for I found it hard to continue the book but now I will focus on the book rather than the artist! Thank you so much!~

  • @QuickM8tey

    @QuickM8tey

    15 күн бұрын

    @@stxrry1832 Always remember that creative works made by individuals are very rarely completed in one session. Novels often are the product of countless revisions, deletions and additions that we as readers never see. We interpret one inseparable whole that is in reality the summation of countless good days and bad days, emotions, inspirations conscious and subconscious, oscillating motives like waves in the ocean. It is true that The Fall was intended as an apology, emphasis mine, in part. That was merely one goal of the novel.

  • @nikaapo5571
    @nikaapo557124 күн бұрын

    I love Camus. Please do a video on The Stranger.

  • @DebasisDas1
    @DebasisDas124 күн бұрын

    Your voice and pronunciation is on another level, I am obsessed with your video. It always great to learn new things ❤

  • @Fershky98
    @Fershky9824 күн бұрын

    I’ve been binge watching your videos whenever I have free time, the way you express yourself and share stories is addictive. Wish you nothing but the best

  • @PhilosophyLover1
    @PhilosophyLover124 күн бұрын

    Thanks for this video. I appreciate you talking about Camus. Your's is one of my favorite channels on KZread

  • @enotsartsani5866
    @enotsartsani586624 күн бұрын

    I just recently discovered your channel and I cannot wait for you to upload a new video . Thank you for all of this . I myself am new in philosophy in any aspect of it and find all your videos fascinating and interesting .

  • @Alex-vm6ef
    @Alex-vm6ef24 күн бұрын

    Video after video, consistently relevant and well made.

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you! That is very kind!

  • @Alex-vm6ef

    @Alex-vm6ef

    24 күн бұрын

    ​​@@unsolicitedadvice9198 for real thank you, these videos create great opportunities. I'm always watching and rewatching them for the way it gets me thinking in a way that's hard to just make yourself do. Unrelated I think that the meaningless world of Camu and it's absurdity is a man-made creation born of an undoing of Michael Polanyi's subsidiary-focal integration, like writing a word so many times it loses its meaning and looks wrong

  • @BaronCreel
    @BaronCreel24 күн бұрын

    This is a story of a narcissist that suddenly became self aware.

  • @AnimosityIncarnate

    @AnimosityIncarnate

    16 күн бұрын

    The vast majority of philosophy was probably in this vain, made by seriously mentally ill people...

  • @kanseidorifto2430

    @kanseidorifto2430

    14 күн бұрын

    As someone who himself has apparently followed this route down to an almost identical level in all of the accounts, I can very much attest that this is very much true.

  • @gubbasgubbas

    @gubbasgubbas

    8 күн бұрын

    @@kanseidorifto2430heh, same

  • @PurplePeopleHatter
    @PurplePeopleHatter24 күн бұрын

    Realising that there is no inherent meaning in the world was, and continues to be, the most freeing experience I ever had. If nothing matters, then nothing I do matters. It removed all of the external pressure I had put on myself, and let me realise that the meaning life has to me is what I choose to give it. I choose to care what my family and friends think of me. I choose to dress nicely and behave well, so strangers on the street think well of me, even though I kinow they probably don't think of me at all, and that it doesn't really matter if they do or don't. I choose what I think is right or wrong, and if I'll behave accordingly. I choose what I value, I choose what I want, I choose what to believe and how to think and how to feel. An existential crisis is the best thing that can happen to someone if they go all the way through it, and the only way to really leave childhood innocence behind.

  • @alena-qu9vj

    @alena-qu9vj

    24 күн бұрын

    This!

  • @wannabecar8733

    @wannabecar8733

    5 күн бұрын

    Jesus is the Son of G-d. He died on a cross and rose from the dead on the third day. He is sitting at the right hand of G-d.

  • @maddie9250
    @maddie925024 күн бұрын

    I've just discovered your channel and I love your Camus videos (he is my favourite philosopher), and The Fall is my favourite book!!

  • @phnompenhandy
    @phnompenhandy24 күн бұрын

    I profoundly appreciate the service you provide - summarising and analysing key books I know I ought to have read, but probably never will!

  • @eric6242
    @eric624221 күн бұрын

    Bro so glad to see your channel grow so much !!!

  • @0oo087
    @0oo0879 күн бұрын

    I've been in a perpetual state of existential crisis and utter dread of life for as long as I can remember being alive. Every "meaning" or "purpose" to life that I find always seems like it's perfect in the moment, and I devote myself to the study of it and learn everything I can about it to prove to others and myself that it's perfect. But it always falls apart, either because it's ripped away from me, I learn that it's not perfect, or in the case of Christianity, even if it is logically perfect, it's just completely unnatural in every way. So I realize that there isn't any great, ultimate, singular universal meaning to anything or myself, but I don't know how to cope with that realization. Because with that realization, comes the parallel realization that there's no real reason why I shouldn't kill myself. And people always say "You don't need a reason to enjoy life, just enjoy it for the sake of enjoying it because you're here" but I've never once felt truly content or happy with anything. I genuinely hate humanity as a whole, and anytime I enjoy something that's happening or something that I'm doing, it's swiftly replaced with the fact that my enjoyment is also completely meaningless, which then completely decimates the sense of enjoyment. I just don't know how to enjoy something that doesn't have a reason or a meaning, including life itself.

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean528010 күн бұрын

    Very nice commentary! When confronted by his work, I think it helps to remember the time period in which Camus was writing. The Stranger came out in 1942, The Plague in 1947, and The Fall in 1956, times when the traumas of World War 2 were either ongoing or still very fresh. Humanity found out some pretty terrible things about itself in those years, and the French had their own particular demons to wrestle -- sometimes, the demons won. I think then that Clemance perhaps can be taken on some level to be France, or even mankind itself, living in the shadow of its own revealed monstrousness, without much clue as to what to do about it. But time would march on from there and it still moves us steadily forward. As we emerge from the postmodern period, we have an opportunity to emerge from the absurd, if only we will take it.

  • @AdaptiveApeHybrid
    @AdaptiveApeHybrid24 күн бұрын

    This is so relevant to where I am right now. Thank you.

  • @annewoodborne1254
    @annewoodborne125425 күн бұрын

    Really enjoyed this analysis of Camus ' character, Clemence. I find Camus' books extremely challenging,so I enjoyed your take on existential crisis. 👍

  • @mbmurphy777
    @mbmurphy77724 күн бұрын

    Nice analysis. Thanks for another great video!

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Soumyeahdeep
    @Soumyeahdeep25 күн бұрын

    Yet another wonderful video from this university wit 🙏🏻

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    25 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Ana_MF
    @Ana_MF24 күн бұрын

    haha, I was going to comment on your last video about how this need of something outside ourselves to validate our good actions makes me uncomfortable as if we're Jean-Baptiste Clamence in the Fall. Perfect timing.

  • @andrejg3086
    @andrejg308621 күн бұрын

    It is a great pleasure to watch your videos on KZread. One can learn a lot from them in a short amount of time. Besides, they are entertaining. You are a brilliant young man.

  • @elenafari_
    @elenafari_24 күн бұрын

    this is my favourite book by camus, it is always beautiful to hear different interpretations. after watching this video i know i have to reread it

  • @zarrar9088
    @zarrar908822 күн бұрын

    Currently reading this book and im glad you uploaded this video

  • @mihailstoyanov3606
    @mihailstoyanov360615 күн бұрын

    I've had it on my nightstand for weeks now, I'll read it and come back to your video!

  • @mellow5857
    @mellow585724 күн бұрын

    Hey man! Just wanted to leave a comment and say that I deeply appreciate the work you’re doing here and your videos are great! Also a thought; how big the list on Patreon or email is, but could be a cool idea that we as a community could vote on one video a month/every 2 weeks would want to see!

  • @PhysiqueWildCard
    @PhysiqueWildCard22 күн бұрын

    Needed to see this today.

  • @marcino8966
    @marcino896624 күн бұрын

    So it turns out my whole life is one huge existential crysis from the very beginning

  • @douabouhlel
    @douabouhlel24 күн бұрын

    Love your videos ♥️

  • @440haste
    @440haste5 сағат бұрын

    Brilliant video.

  • @rickstube5299
    @rickstube529924 күн бұрын

    Once again fantastic video, i hope you will make a video on heidegger's view of technology, since I feel its a deeply underrated work, Even better if you could do being and time, as all your works are always fantastic. Looking forward to new videos!

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you! I have been meaning to learn more about Heidegger

  • @user-bb8sw1jo6o
    @user-bb8sw1jo6o13 күн бұрын

    When I was 23, I built an entire fantasy world full of constant synchronicities and strange meanings. It was the worst hell I've ever and probably will ever experience. And to think... I probably did all of that to not face the truth of it all, or "the absurd". I honestly think I'm way too terrified for that. I sort of live like the early character in this book, except I'm not a narcissist lol. I'm not really "good" either though, just inoffensive to be honest hahaha.

  • @matejsrb155
    @matejsrb15524 күн бұрын

    You went from a blazer to a sweatshirt and a chain. More power to you mate. 😊 Regardless of clothing, your channel is more and more becoming my favorite.

  • @Fictionalre
    @Fictionalre24 күн бұрын

    Excellent video

  • @I_did_poopoo
    @I_did_poopoo24 күн бұрын

    I needed to hear this

  • @isjosh8064
    @isjosh806424 күн бұрын

    Would love a video on L'étranger!

  • @justblaze127
    @justblaze12724 күн бұрын

    Great video👍

  • @philyeary8809
    @philyeary880924 күн бұрын

    A great episode man...have you done a treatise on Camus the Rebel? Might be awesome...

  • @newton4417
    @newton441724 күн бұрын

    Thanks for vedio, right now I am going through crises 😔😔😔...

  • @snipergaming2639
    @snipergaming263922 күн бұрын

    I really enjoyed this take on Camus and It really resonated with me. I’d be interesting if you could perhaps do a video exploring anti-natalism and the rationale behind that. There is a book about it called better to have never been by David Benatar.

  • @anarmustafayev1555
    @anarmustafayev155522 күн бұрын

    Imagine everything lost meaning, and everybody is a stranger, yeah I got there. You got me right away, as soon as video began.

  • @dimitrisfotinakis4076
    @dimitrisfotinakis407624 күн бұрын

    Yet another wonderful video about Camus

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @nowt-ing
    @nowt-ing24 күн бұрын

    Hey I just wanted to say it would be lovely if you could put this on spotify, I enjoyed every part of it but I find it difficult to listen to it without youtube premium. Keep it up..!

  • @danny_mtnz
    @danny_mtnz24 күн бұрын

    Saved to watch later this tutorial on how to have an existential crisis 🫡

  • @nguynhuy2902
    @nguynhuy290224 күн бұрын

    Looking forward to another Camus video :)

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @umutunal3754
    @umutunal37543 күн бұрын

    I think he just became aware he was french which is terrific

  • @zihegu4694
    @zihegu469424 күн бұрын

    Hey, I love your videos, I’m wondering what are your thoughts on Sartre?

  • @volkoff6357
    @volkoff6357Күн бұрын

    That first statement describes my view, which is the dark and horrific curse of consciousness. Death is the only bringer of peace. I've hated myself for as long as I can remember. Therefore, I did not share the same experience as the character being discussed. We did come to the same conclusion about humanity, life, and death.

  • @br3nto
    @br3nto18 күн бұрын

    24:48 the poor guy… so close to understanding nihilism, yet so wrapped up in the idea that opinions matter. Everything is but a fleeting interaction that only has meaning at the time but yet leaves a solid foundation that influences every future interaction. Every interaction does not happen in isolation but is a dance between multiple things. The interaction ripples out new interactions that are also meaningless without context, but also form the foundation of future interactions.

  • @DangoWangochu
    @DangoWangochu24 күн бұрын

    this was really cool

  • @seacatdefunky
    @seacatdefunky24 күн бұрын

    wake up babe, new unsolicited advice video !!

  • @hy-roller7771
    @hy-roller77718 күн бұрын

    This reminds me of the total perspective vortex.

  • @SkeddaGarnom
    @SkeddaGarnom24 күн бұрын

    Have you read or heard of the book Siddartha? Due to the philosophical questions pondered in that book, I feel like it'd be very interesting to see broken down by your point of view. Honestly, you make a lot of books much easier to understand, and I thank you for that

  • @thomasfaulkner1341
    @thomasfaulkner134125 күн бұрын

    Camus! _Un grand homme_ … Have you considered doing a video on _L’Homme Révolté_ , i.e. the _Rebel_ ? It’s such a great book… Keep up the terrific work!

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    25 күн бұрын

    Thank you! Ah I love The Rebel. I ended up referencing it so much in my video on Paradise Lost that I am waiting to do a full video on it.

  • @thomasfaulkner1341

    @thomasfaulkner1341

    24 күн бұрын

    Great! His take on Nietzsche seems to me to be the most faithful and accurate one out there… Camus really understood Nietzsche… Alright, will definitely check out your other video in the meantime then!

  • @robertdabob8939
    @robertdabob893913 күн бұрын

    It's like the collapse of ego boundaries, of a world defined in terms that give it form and meaning, and a confrontation with oneself, the collective unconscious, the abyss, the absurd. Camus sees the world with a terrifying clarity, and I'm grateful to him for that bc apparently we share a cognitive type prone to suffering: INFP One of my fav quotes: "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" - Albert Camus It asks a very serious existential question acknowledging the human condition, while at the same time reminding us not to take ourselves so seriously. My take at least, I've yet to read that book.

  • @user-bb8sw1jo6o

    @user-bb8sw1jo6o

    13 күн бұрын

    Man, it gets even worse when you realize that death is not the end of it. That's a funny quote though... INFPs are cool.

  • @Quadrant14
    @Quadrant1424 күн бұрын

    Excellent video mate, look forward to each of your uploads. I strangley like Camus.

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you! and he is a great thinker

  • @maladacav8819
    @maladacav881919 күн бұрын

    I belive many many go through this in fact I believe it’s a necessity for a whole fruit life - it’s in many esoteric literatures etc and some call it The Dark Night of the Soul. - and all of what you described is someone still stuck in that past of their journey . Even though I have this knowledge within me and can relate to the author in many ways it still scares the bejesus out of me hearing another version of it.

  • @kloroform1681
    @kloroform168124 күн бұрын

    Very powerful

  • @doyle6000
    @doyle60004 күн бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @SkaggerBagger
    @SkaggerBagger24 күн бұрын

    Dude, love you you make me want to read

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you! That is high praise indeed!

  • @EddyMakes
    @EddyMakes14 күн бұрын

    "Can we lock eyes with the void without flinching?" 26:26

  • @ThePond135
    @ThePond13524 күн бұрын

    Hey man, as someone trying to get started on KZread, I'm curious, do you have someone who edits your videos for you? I have no idea how you manage to consistently upload every 4 days 🤯

  • @Ana_MF
    @Ana_MF24 күн бұрын

    The way Clamence compares Amsterdam to the circles of hell left an everlasting impression in me. I really like Camus. He was brave enough to express his points of view in opposite to the other thinkers of his time and expose them for their hypocrisies. We as ordinary people probably have a lot more in common with Clamence than what we would like to admit( especially in these times when our image seems to be the most important thing)...The ones that I find particularly dangerous are the voices of authority, those who are praised by society and in their discourse end up justifying all kinds of atrocities because it's easy for them to do so from their comfortable lives. It' s easy to judge when you are not really affected or involved by what you are theorizing about and all you are going to receive is the adulation from others. Camus saw that in Sartre & company and they never forgive him for that.

  • @onegoal1775
    @onegoal177524 күн бұрын

    This book resonates pretty strongly with me. I think that when we hit an existential crisis, we should examine our lives and sort things out, as it's ultimately an opportunity to grow and develop further. If you have the privilege to come face to face with the Absurd, this is doubly true.

  • @michaelmcdoesntexist1459
    @michaelmcdoesntexist145923 күн бұрын

    After facing the absurd, and recognizing how flawed I am... I decided to pardon myself, since nobody was there to do it. If God isn't there to forgive me, then I'll do it and by the way forgive and appreciate my fellow man as much as I'm able to do so. If the throne is empty that just means is our for the taking.

  • @immigrationadviser4711
    @immigrationadviser471124 күн бұрын

    Albert Camus was Nobel price winner however as he truely said, the universe was indifferent to any meaning the man drives from his actions.

  • @SayanModak-mx6ik
    @SayanModak-mx6ik24 күн бұрын

    Can you please review the stranger by camus love your vids btw

  • @redguy2076
    @redguy207624 күн бұрын

    His grave is epic. I won't forget how it was just a big piece of rock with his name and date of existence carved into it. His words have made me more aware of the impact of my actions, or inaction, in the world, and of the things I can and can't control.

  • @KarlHessey-db6mf
    @KarlHessey-db6mf24 күн бұрын

    I feel that way to mate, I judge even the direction I am looking in sometimes and what I'm thinking or looks like through other eyes, I think I have tiny arms and huge legs, I hate my body yet love it and think I'm a miniature Ryan Reynolds, ok being to cocky now, comment over.

  • @maladacav8819
    @maladacav881919 күн бұрын

    Then part where you described judge peninate is literally what AA to a T especially sponsers who want to have truly an array of sponsees to follow all of their directions.

  • @yetigriff
    @yetigriff24 күн бұрын

    Should i watch this video or have a cup of coffee? I'm currently half way through 'The Plague'.

  • @snipergaming2639

    @snipergaming2639

    22 күн бұрын

    So did you watch the video?

  • @yetigriff

    @yetigriff

    22 күн бұрын

    I watched the video today, or maybe yesterday

  • @snipergaming2639

    @snipergaming2639

    22 күн бұрын

    @@yetigriff Good

  • @TINA11199
    @TINA1119924 күн бұрын

    Becoming a fan of you gradually and unknowingly 😮❤

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @TINA11199

    @TINA11199

    24 күн бұрын

    @@unsolicitedadvice9198 Your welcome sir ♥

  • @herrweiss2580

    @herrweiss2580

    19 күн бұрын

    @@TINA11199 You’re*

  • @glenbateman5960
    @glenbateman596013 күн бұрын

    "He who claims to have no flaws of character has, by that very claim, revealed one." - A.D. Wallace

  • @saadasif040
    @saadasif04023 күн бұрын

    You're doing an awesome work. Loved it from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰

  • @emilsteensen7481
    @emilsteensen748118 күн бұрын

    I'd like to support you, but due to certain circumstances, I'm not doing that through Patreon. Is there another way to help you out with a small gesture?

  • @dimkk605
    @dimkk60524 күн бұрын

    You can read this book. Its good. It wont harm you. Why? 1. If you are not this type of human, like Camus, then you will just feel a little bit annoyed, but then continue life without any serious implications. 2. If you are like Camus, you will feel a little be comfort that someone like you used to exist on this planet a century ago. YOU HAVE TO BE THIS TYPE OF HUMAN IN ORDER TO BE DEVASTATED. ACTUALLY, IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF HUMAN BEING, THEN YOU ARE ALREADT DEVASTATED. THE FALL ISN'T GOING TO AFFECT YOU NEGATIVELY. I AM LIKE THIS. I STOP LIVING 14 YEARS AGO. AT MY 18.

  • @vilhelm9999
    @vilhelm999925 күн бұрын

    Very nice yes

  • @unsolicitedadvice9198

    @unsolicitedadvice9198

    25 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @HeatherHolt
    @HeatherHolt19 күн бұрын

    Camus is the philosopher that makes the most sense to me.

  • @okeyokey578
    @okeyokey57824 күн бұрын

    camus is amazing

  • @ChaoticNeutralMatt
    @ChaoticNeutralMatt19 күн бұрын

    I'd be sus of my own state change, but also fully just go with it.

  • @Conspexit
    @Conspexit23 күн бұрын

    I bet you go skiing in Courchavel

  • @johnb528
    @johnb52824 күн бұрын

    Oddly this reminds me of a Simpsons episode. When Lisa discovers the truth of Jebediah Springfield’s past but ultimately keeps it to herself rather than take away the “myth” of it which brings joy to the townspeople.

  • @lyricsofthevalley
    @lyricsofthevalley21 күн бұрын

    can you pls make a vid about the qoute "i think therefore i am"

  • @slugrag
    @slugrag24 күн бұрын

    Why, oh why, is all never quite what it seems?

  • @KingOfGamesss
    @KingOfGamesss24 күн бұрын

    I mean...SOMEONE has to be wrong.......so it's always POSSIBLE that it could be you....and when you realize it...then yes it would be...frustrating and annoying...and embarrassing and all the other emotions...BUT...it's not a crisis...it's NEVER too late to fix everything and restore Order to your Life.

  • @NomadInvestor-po2xk
    @NomadInvestor-po2xk21 күн бұрын

    Like for your style!

  • @bostonteapartycrasher
    @bostonteapartycrasher22 күн бұрын

    Death smiles at us all; the only thing we can do is smile back

  • @menschin2
    @menschin219 күн бұрын

    Camus was great. I read the cause 45years ago. ❤

  • @TheApplicant150
    @TheApplicant15022 күн бұрын

    Narcissism is what I infer, the crisis to me is like the death of his ego

  • @nimas1144
    @nimas114424 күн бұрын

    One does require an iced out chain to explain the deep inner working of Camus.

  • @swordguy1243
    @swordguy124324 күн бұрын

    This video come up and I just finished a game where my character was called Judge Penitent 😮

  • @o0GaSMaN0o
    @o0GaSMaN0oКүн бұрын

    The first self aware kindless influencer.