Nihilism - Existentialism - Absurdism
This is where we are stuck.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that existence itself becomes an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This must be clung to because the whole consequence of a life can depend on it. The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter — these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.
If the world were clear, art would not exist.