Post #2790059
2025-12-22 16:04 UTC
My initial response to the `Recursive Absurd` was a familiar one: surely we could engineer our way out - with better code, kinder patterns, more humane systems.
I was wrong.
The remedy isn’t cleaner loops - it’s refusing to become one.
Introducing: "Humanist Absurdism"
When the world grows more absurd, more automated, more systematically cruel-
Choosing to remain human, together, becomes the most radical act left.
New essay:
https://mathewstorm.ca/writing/philosophy/humanist-absurdism/
(I also re-designed and upgraded my personal website for a better reading experience!)
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@TheServitor@sigmoid.social 2025-12-22 16:06
@smattymatty@techhub.social I also have been drawn to Camus lately. Somewhere between the better parts of Nietzsche and Camus there is hope for overcoming nihilism.
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@Jakester@techhub.social 2025-12-22 16:31
@smattymatty@techhub.social Reading this brings to mind a classic Captain Picard quote. He once told Data, "Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too." I think we all can learn something from that.