I definitely have a strong leaning towards Camus although I think he goes a bit extreme to places I can’t follow.
“Justification of existence” – I tend towards a “thing in itself” – the doing its own reward or not even reward but “things are as they are; we do as we do” and yet
there’s the strange social currency that isn’t currency and yet it also is. I certainly participate in it and enjoy it and it’s all quite bizarre really.
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