gerald lindner
1 min readJun 2, 2024

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Camus must be seen within the context of his time. The horrors of WWII had just ended, and the ideological struggle on how to re-organise society, communism or capitalism, raging.

I guess that he too was searching for something tangible and more fundamental to hold on to than the hollow political dogmas of his day. That he came up with a form of relativity during that time and age is perhaps not strange. After Einstein and a prelude to post-modernism. In the acceptance of, or perhaps even submission to, the unavoidable absurdity of death, thus of life, lies the foundation for unconditional human solidarity. The concept of his humanist novel La Pest.

It is interesting to see that, around the same time, the author of A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, went on to write The Perennial Philosophy. Perhaps Tesla was on to something: it's all about vibrations, resonance being part of it. Which in the sum of things, doesn't make our actions, and by default our lives, necessarily irrelevant.

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gerald lindner
gerald lindner

Written by gerald lindner

My 3 continents, 5 countries youth deconstructed most cultural lock-ins and social biases. It opened my mind to parallel views and fundamental innovations.

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