Absurdism
I think I may be absurd. You see, after watching Joss Whedon’s wonderful sci-fi series FireFly, I checked up on him and found he claims to be an absurdist. So the power of Google led me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism which has to be one of the most fascinating pages on the web. At least, for people like me.
According to this page, I’m either an absurdist, an Athieistic existentialist or Nihilist … and if I’d studied English further, might know whether to capitlise the first letters of these words or not (I weary of that kind of trivia, written words merely represents a sound, sounds have at their root no meaning other than what we attach, so what difference can capitalisation really make? I know, I know, you see through me, I simply don’t know enough grammar, you got me.)
Further narrowing down leads me to suspect atheistic existentialism more befits my line of thought, but who other than me could possibly care? Well it’s not about me, not completely 
– it’s about a well thought out, philosophical basis on which to underpin everything. Everything being one’s world view, one’s understanding, literally all that a person is, imagines themselves to be, and the framework for the sum of experiences which they term their life.
Reading the words of Camus and Kierkegaard, one has to ask why are the words of these thinkers not taught in Schools? Why are children’s heads filled with non-sensical dogma labeled religion and given some untouchable status? I was lucky enough to have friends (hey Wrecker!) who espoused the views of these thinkers at University but failed to see the significance at the time, thinking they were stating the obvious. They were! But how this beautiful obvious is demonised, feared, hidden away, loathed by the dogmites – the dead minds who fill your world and mine with fear, dread and ignorance.
Carl Sagan’s words accompanied by music and video cry out to be included in this post, an extract from the amazing Pale Blue Dot production – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0
Surrounded as I write by Catholic churches, Catholic-only schools, Church of Scotland shrines here there and everywhere, a 5-minute walk from the aptly named “Holy Corner”, yes, I’d say absurd befits my status nicely.
Filed under: Delusions on April 19th, 2008
