Albert Camus - The Plague
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- There is no more important book to understand our times than Albert Camus's The Plague, a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. Camus speaks to us now not because he was a magical seer, but because he correctly sized up human nature. As he wrote: ‘Everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune.’
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8 people downvoted have the plague.
Great! Please could you do Ionescos Rhinocéros too?
Sounds great. Alain please could you read some guided philosophical meditations for the pandemic. 20 to 30 mins long? Thank you for all your work.
Do more Philosophy, Art and Literature videos!
I am china girl. my beautiful country make virus to be world leader
"We Learn from History that we don't learn from History".
- Hegel.
No, we don't learn shit.
Yes and No.
@@edholohan That's another way of saying the same thing ...
Yes, we do learn from history. But, since history is false because it is written by whoever is in power, we learn the wrong lessons.
Hegel is the man.
I can't believe it took a pandemic for TSoL to finally bring back its Literature analysis videos. Please, keep these coming!
cynical cenobia I feel the same way....I really missed these videos...they are epic
I couldn't believe this analysis didn't exist already, I was wondering why my feed was suggesting an older video...
Yes, their videos seem to focus on interpersonal relationships too often for my taste since I'm a loner. This is the first I've watched in months.
yes i super miss thesse tooo
Yes, this was the kind of content that made me a subscriber in the first place.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
As pretty as the rhetoric is, let's be honest, this quote is devoid of any real substance or meaning. How do you "become" free? or more free? We are all born free and freedom can only be taken away from us. Is he perhaps suggesting we become rebels? In what capacity? I fail to see how rebels are more free than non-rebels.
@@sebastianelytron8450 I think Camus means we should be authentic in the face of a society or situations that would have us conform. To express ones self, is to express ones life. To live freely in a world you deem unfree, is to be a nonconformist and thus a rebel.
@@sebastianelytron8450 yes! Rebel against non-freedom wherever it exist. By demanding and voting for more freedom and less rules and laws, by limiting governance, and make freedom the rule and not the outlier. By thinking free and being critically. By speaking free even tough it's not in fashion are the mainstream as long as it follows logic and common sense.
In essence Not a social justice oppressive nut but a Liberitarian who speaks its mind.
Sebastian Elytron if you believe that the world is slowly, well as of late rather quickly, creeping towards an authoritarian technocratic nwo with types like bill gates and other philanthropists calling for depopulation this quote has a very literal meaning. I mean if one believed such a crazy thing that people conspire, and not that it's all just random.
@@spfbaits NWO? Depopulation? What are you talking about?
Sisyphus giving the thumbs up at 8:06 up made me smile.
Gaseous Clay who knew? It was his workout regime all along.
Made me laugh! Haha thought it was brilliant! Also all this editing was. Made me wonder how they do it.
Sammee lol
@@wcg66 That's the view I use to get through my workday.
Hahahaha I laughed hard at this hahaha
Amazing how therapeutic pessimistic ideas can be when delivered intentionally and with kindness
it feels less pessimistic, and more consolingly rational
I get what you are saying but I'd disagree. Pessimism isn't what it is. It's a view of life without the mythical. It's only pessimistic when placed up against the idea that there is something more to life than just our time on Earth. I'd say its a sort of humbling of humanity in that it brings us back down to what we really are-animals. I might go insofar as to say that his view is less pessimistic than others. While this is pretty obvious in comparison to many nihilists, i'd even say he is more optimistic in comparison to religion. Religion (generally speaking) says that our lives on Earth are the prerequisite to the life in the heavens. Our time on Earth doesn't matter and is really just a test for us to prove our worthiness in the eyes of God. That idea to me is more pessimistic as it's a view that is built off of denial. We are just animals, we aren't important. That isn't pessimism, it's being realistic. Saying we are important is a denial of this reality. This denial results in us living a life in fantasy. However, there is somewhat of a paradox in this as the idea that we are something special is optimistic (hope). So in a way, this pessimism is translated into an optimism. I guess it renders the words useless and just highlights the irrationality in religious thought.
Those are not pessimistic ideas. Camus intended to make us understand that life has no meaning whatsoever, but even if it is meaningless, it deserves to be lived and yes, death is unavoidable and there is nothing afterwards, but we have to fight it because life is the only thing we really have!
@@kshirin0298 exactly!
I think the word absurd is a bit too simple - one dimensionally negative - for the context of his stories.
If life has no purpose, you should put that purpose in yourself.
'This whole thing is not about heroism. It's about decency. It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.' .- Albert Camus
Plagues and viruses don't care about decency. "Decent" people can die just as well as indecent people. Pandemics are a matter for modern medicine, using science, not philosophical pessimism.
It is not pessimism. Camus just reminds us that the fact that we live it's absurd and that we should be grateful but also act by helping the others
@@user-lj5ot5bi4i I dunno, but saying life is absurd is like abandoning the ship before it pulls out of the dock, i.e., giving up before the journey has even started. That's pessimism.
@@VernCrisler u clearly have not read an Albert Camus book or studied his philosphy.
@@unchartedrocks1 I've studied existentialism in class, plus I'm reading Hegel and Husserl right now. I'll have to wait on Camus, although "The Plague" sounds like an interesting novel.
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.” - Albert Camus
I always thought that my whole life if your healthy it's a joy fighting ..but I unfortunately not physically well
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
-Albert Camus
Goddamn
@Archnid 001 because women don't think. Is that what you wanted to hear ? Is that what you were telling yourself are you looking for validation for your own bullshit fuck off yeah ?
What's up Camus 🙋🏾♂️
Absurd Hero Hey! nothing much, just chilling and writing some philosophy ;). It’s good to see others following my philosophy.
@@absurdcamus6026 I don't think he would like to call it "his" philosophy but he'd be happy to see people think and be more aware of the Absurd.
Literally one of my most favourite books of all time. Read it three times and reading it now again. High recommend
Same here. I've lost count of how many times I've read this book and the 'Myth of Sisyphus'. The heroism I find in characters like Rieux , Tarrou and Grand all but break my heart. 'Doing one's job' in the face of such pain and hopeless fear, is heroic to me. Kindness is heroic to me. Plain decency is heroic. And understanding and acceptance of the randomness and absurdity of life, yet doing what you can for others, taking simple enjoyment from what is available - like a swim in the sea, or a pleasant conversation with a friend - seems to me to be the only point to our existence.
I am also reading it. From where you are Shyan Ali?
Liaqat Asadi bd
When the kid died in the book....man, that stuck with me. What a thinker Camus was
Beautiful book! Read it a few months ago before this pandemic and been reflecting upon it ever since
"¿Who could say that eternity of joy can make up for an instant of human pain?" One of my favourite quotes of the book.
Cannot wrap my mind around it. Can you explain it for a novice?
@@Life_Of_Mine_ I see this as a dig against religion perhaps? he is making the human argument that religion/god or the concept of everlasting life could not make up for a singular moment of human suffering...that's what I understand from this.
Adam J you are right. It’s direct reference to the promise of nearly all religions that heaven will give you a reward that will compensate all life sufferings. Camus thinks that human sufferings cannot be compensated by promise of eternal life.
Perpetual sunshine will only create a desert!
We could also read it with Schopenhauer's idea of the negativity of satisfaction: “We feel pain, but not painlessness; worry, but not freedom from worry; fear, but not safety...
We painfully feel the loss of pleasures and enjoyments, as soon as they fail to appear, but when pains cease even after being present for a long time, their absence is not directly felt, but at most they are thought of intentionally by means of reflection"
Finished this book a couple weeks ago, such a great great book, the scene when Dr Rieux and Tarrou are on the rooftop then take a swim in the waters in silence and they feel free after working so hard to keep the plague under control. That part got to me.
Yes indeed great passage!
"Life is like a waiting room except people don't leave in the order they come". I love the absurd reality that life is really a hospice 💔
Me: "Well, time to take my mind off this quarantine with some fun RUclips videos."
RUclips:
Fun videos are like a box of your favorite cookies: tasty and enjoyable, but not very nutritious. Videos like this one have substance to them that give meaning to your quarantine.
I’ve realized how much stuff in this book I failed to appreciate when I first read it. With all this free time and also online school, I might consider reading it again before I go on to 9th grade.
I’m reading it and I’m in the 10th grade right now
Does this remind anyone of the old School of Life videos around 2014-2016 about literature,politics,history,psychology etc? Oh my god these were the videos that made me fall in love with this channel, I’m glad there back 🕺🏿
right wing left wing chicken wing yep. I’ve missed them, too.
The same here!
There back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back there back they're back their back.
right wing left wing chicken wing modest mouse!!!
camus: writes about half of town die due to plague
everyone in 2020: *nervous laughter*
The best thought I can remember from reading the book was the idea at the when all castarophoe and bedlam were taking place was this notion that even in that hell, one must take time for themselves to self-love, self-heal, "take time to go swim in the sea."
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under that vast indifference of the sky.” -The Plague, Albert Camus page 71 (depending on your translation)
Existential Weirdo to quote the man himself “I view my work as a lucid invitation to live and create in the very midst of the desert.” Goodluck my friend!
Similar quote from The Stranger: "gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
I read this as a senior in high school and have reread it many times since. Decency, compassion, moving forward in the face of all odds - the antidote to the fear of death. I pulled this book off the shelf two weeks ago- thank you for reminding me why I need to read it again right now.
Studying French Literature for a senior level in uni, and just discussed this last week, this week Sartre .
I hope you're my future.
Reggie Cyde why poor?
Sartre 's the Wall is a short story that gave me such a visceral reaction at the end. I laughed and cried. Never happened before or since.
Travis Yanes Hope they discussed his flip flopping from Marxism to Anarchism
Not a person I’d seek inspiration from !
Yawn, cool story, bro
His philosophy leads me to conclude that we are all in this together (decency). Fruitful society would mean we would have learned how to be intuitively decent to each other.
Whether you're happy or sad, Camus will always remind you, of your fundamental, human vulnerability.
Only such an excelling mind in a devoted thinker, could ever come to weight, with such baffling accuracy, the ultimate condition of humanity.
Truly inspiring painting of what seems to be for many, a far too alien concept.
And that with such modesty, Camus had expressed, as a mere concern for the good and prosperity of human history.
Please do more of these breakdowns. The Classics more specifically.
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-A Tale of Two Cities
-The Count of Monte Cristo
What does these books tell us about the human condition? This video has appeared not to talk about literature per se. This appeared to talk about being alive in the midst of death, and how to adjust to that fact. It's a commentary on the Covid-19 Pandemic, that is trying to tell us that literature like Camus can tell us about the conundrum of our impending death, an event most of us pretends does not exist. If perhaps, we were more mindful of our own end, we would live differently.
@@BigHenFor thanks captain obvious. They still want to see those videos.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale of hedonism. It's so dense in ideas that when I first read it I told to myself: This author has put all of his ideas in one novel, he couldn't possibly write any other. And as it turned out it was true, this was Oscar Wilde's only novel. I was right!
- The Count of MC is a tale for kids, man, let's get real.
- I haven't read the other one, to my great shame.
@SIR CENTURY Terrific reply here; made my almost happy hour day. I teach the World War 1 poems in my Lit class to college students, and those poems never fail to move me in just the way you mention. Camus would have probably said that we learn little from the collective crisis (see the end of La Peste) but I disagree; I think we are reminded that collectively we are not very good as primates at preventing even the most stupid of collective actions. Why is that?
@@lucianene7741 Tale of Two Cities was really nice IMO.
Thanks for bringing back The Curriculum series. That's what made The School of Life worthy!
My favorite scene from the plague was when M.Othon's son died. I was literally holding back tears, the image of M.Othon say 'just save my boy' came in front of me The suffering the boy went through was truly evil. And how this one death caused the pastor to question his belief, and then come to conclusion that he had tqo options either stop believing in God, or stop being rational.
I had always thought that the argument from evil, was a weak argument against theism, that scene changed my mind.
I read The Plague when I was in my early 20s and it surely had an effect on me. Then at 36 I fell, died, and was resurrected out of exercise-induced sudden cardiac arrest, which confirmed everything Camus had said to me 14 years earlier.
So you died and came back to life? Did you ever at one point assume it was the power of God? 🤔
@@yasha12isreal So...Your "god" gave him a heart attack!?
He was revived with human technology!
Seems to me that your "god" might benefit from some more modern teaching methods!
Maybe read some Camus?!
@@rayhuster5212 I don't believe in God! All I read is Camus, you can say I'm a Camusian 😏. But I was just asking in general, just making conversation🤷🏾♂️
@@yasha12isreal Sorry for my confusion! My grandkids are trying to teach me about Imoges!(sp.) I am still in remedial smiley face!
It's ok 😊
La Peste is my first exposure to Camus. I fell absolutely in love with his writing.
Thanks for the recommendation, Black Coffee. It seems a good time to get some reading done.
If you have not yet, you should read The First Man. I think it's his most beautifully written
@@ChristopherTheBanana Thanks. It looks as if we will be confined to our homes for a while, so we might as well make the best of it.
Booba and La Fontaine write better!
This is one of the greatest books in the French litteracy. I've just read it in French (I'm Belgian) a few days ago, and I was stunned by the beauty of the writing.
Congratulations. You are very fortunate of domaining french and english and problably flemish as well 🙂👌👍👍👍
I feel like so much of Camus is lost in translation, even though we gain so much from the translated words. I feel like he was a poet and his true magic is in the way he expressed those thoughts in his own language! I truly feel like he was an eternal optimist, who viewed that world as "Silly" more than "Absurd", and that life is NOT meaningless, but the attempt to assign meaning to it is. Life is to be lived and to fall into governmental or societal traps is to deny your thoughts and your life. That is optimism!
I've been thinking about this lately. How 1st world modern life and medicine has in a lot of ways made us utterly naive and sheltered from death. With the lack of concern toward ones of mortality, as well as the mortality of loved ones, infant mortality rate at an all time low, and the capacity to be able to put yourself in harm's way, whether it be putting yourself in a dangerous situation potentially resulting in physical harm, or substance abuse, you can always rely on modern medicine and technology to help you recover. We all assume that we'll live beyond 80, but what if we didn't? What if the concept that we could die tomorrow was dragged from the depths and pinned to our concious mind? Perhaps then would we be more conscious of our time? Would be derive more motivation to utilize our time to do more? Would we treat everyday as if it were our last? Would we decide to put something important off for another day, if we knew there might not be another day? Would we start to look after and maintain our bodies and minds better, engage more in life, perhaps even return to the likes of family values? Something very potentially old and primitive about these concepts I find. When reading these reports about Covid since January, I had an idea of what was going to happen, I was prepared for when it came at our doorstep, but I noticed something different, something clicked in my brain, and my priorities instantly rearranged and I began to truly appreciate how stupid and simplistic first world problems are, and how they aren't even real problems, they're just spoiled complaints and potentially boredom.
My boss is making me work extra time because of this pandemic man... Profit and wage earning is gonna decrease. That's what we'll be focussing on soon enough...
Well said
I wish my mindset would be the positive answers to all of your question, but i keep living life as if one day I will succeed as long as I keep half-assing, being carefree and that it's destined for a happy ending.
@@coolpfpbut9505 Then I think you will find a happy ending. I'm not being sarcastic, attitude is everything (sorta...).
we aren't made for what we made
One of the most amazing books I’ve ever read. The description of the death of one of the main characters is haunting and epic and unforgettable.
Stopping everything I'm doing now to read this book.
Prepare for a snooze fest
Read 'the stranger' also.
@@miraggg I can draw parallels between two epidemics? Fascinating. I don't mean to be a dick but I just enjoyed reading Camus's other novels more than this one.
I finished yesterday. It is really good. Highly recommended.
@@anssim928 My favorite is "the stranger" despite the fact that Oran is my home town. If you knew why he had chosen Oran for the plague, you would have known why it does relate in these days of the Corona.
Thanks for recommending this amazing book. I finished reading it and to be honest there could not have been a more apt time to read it. He analyses human behaviour throughout the plague from denial, to acceptance, to ignorance and then finally forgetting that it happened. Loved it! It is really thought provoking how he mentions that the plague will always be there and that no human is ever immune.
I read The Plague just last year after having read The Stranger, and never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that I would be living partially if not entirely through the very same existential angst experienced and lived through by the citizens of Oran.
Our everyday life is struggle to stay alive or not get sick
Did you notice the reference to The Stranger in The Plague?
Please keep up literature series. It teaches a lot about life.
suffering is entirely randomly distributed, it makes no sense, it is no ethical force, it is simply absurd and that is the kindest thing one can say of it.
That French pronunciation of "Albert Camus" : spot on !
The narrator, Alain de Botton spent the first twelve years of his life in Switzerland where he was brought up speaking French and German. Wikimedia
He got also the pronunciation of Oran also
Oran, Dr Rieux also
By "French" I assume you mean correct, Mon frere?
Yes, he pronounces "Oran" correctly, but he could have pronounced it with the English accent. Or the Arabic one, but alas, Camus was living during the colonisation era.
From within the book he bellows with equal parts wisdom and a keen eye for compassion, "I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold." There is a race for the vaccine yet what will keep us going through these bleak times is our capacity for love and compassion. Wrap your words into a warm fleecy shawl and send them your friend or strangers way. Light his/her candle. Keep sanitizing😊
Well said!!
I recently finished reading “The Plague” even though I started reading it before the Corona Virus pandemic, but it was a such an unique experience reading it during a “similar” time.
It is amazingly well written piece and one of the Camus best works in my opinion. How he describes with such a dense and heavy narrative the events during the plague and how it affected the citizens and the aspects of the city are molded severely by the fighting against it.
The characters are so genuinely “human”, showing us lots of dept layers of them as the autor kept developing and introducing pieces of their ideals, flaws and social interactions. Truly one of the best books I’ve read so far in my life :)
(Sorry if there’s any grammatical or composition errors, english is not my first language)
Jamie, Thank you for posting your good comment on the book. :)
Steadman Uhlich did you read the original French version ?
@@Frenchkisssss 😂I'd wanna but my French is on the level of a child.
roger james hunter And Trump is enjoying the fiction.
Thank you Alain, i feel like my whole approach to this thing is vindicated...doing ones job, appreciating the light of a sunset and swimming in the sea.
A couple of corrections: The plague in Camus' novel is the bacterium Yersinia pestis, not a virus. It's most common form (and the one described in the novel), bubonic plague, is spread not from person to person but by carriers such as rats and fleas.
Exactly what I came to say! NOT A VIRUS! :)
They seem to be confused about that because they start using the word virus but then the word bacillus por the rest of the video
Well done
The point is that it is a deadly disease however caused and the similarities with now are more important than the differences to the story in the book
I literally read this article on their website last night
I absolutely adore Philosophical videos like this. I do hope you make many more to come soon
How else could you read it other than literally?
How can you not “literally” read something?
this is philosophy guys! you could always theoretically read something!
Ree 94 how literal of you.
I guess the only thing left to say is Long Live Camus! Long Live Alain! Long Live The School of Life! And hopefully everybody is safe and happy and healthy during this plague-19....
Camus had a particularly poignant ability to see humanity as it truly is. His works never fail to educate, provocate, and entertain the introspective mind.
I'm starting to feel a certain kinship with Camus, for even as a teenage child several years before I even heard of Camus I would often think about the absurdity of the human condition. I used to confuse my friends and family when saying "People and life are absurd". At the time I couldn't articulate what I meant by that, at least without confusing people (including myself) more lol. I wish I would have found Camus back then cos I often felt like I was singularly weird or strange and prolly would have found comfort in his writing I presume.
I swear me too. I'm 24 now but as a teenager I shared a lot of his views that made loved ones look at me like a 'stranger'. I grew up in a very religious household and almost everyone throughout my family tree were/are preachers. When I spoke out to people that I was a non-believer I felt a heaviness being lifted off my life and I felt sooo free and still do. I've always had a thing for philosophy but when I came across Camus in 2015 through videos from School of Life I felt like I've found a Teacher of Life 😌. Revolt Freedom and Passion 🖤
@@yasha12isreal We all should be best friends. Same religious background, went through a nihilistic depressive state in my late teens, now I am an absurdist through and through.
I read The Plague while at university about 40 years ago. I did so rather self-consciously, in pubs, to draw the literature and philosophy girls into a conversation. Didn't work. They seemed to prefer the rugby lads. I opted for a life of service, doing the right thing, doing my job, being kind, concerned and caring. But look at this place, filled with the plague of cynicism, selfishness and hoarding. Like the rock of Sisyphus, my burden has rolled all the way down the hill. Perhaps I will reread The Plague to remind myself that I have to pick up my rock and walk on up that hill with as much cheer as I can muster. That's my job.
martycrow You could launch a second career, take up the cello or drawing. You don’t have to carry the world on your shoulders.
@@mjcard Thank you kindly. If I may? I have been highly adaptable in terms of career, having had perhaps three, each lasting a decade or more, with some 'public duties' being carried in addition. It has what has given my life meaning. But things have changed and I may turn 60 soon. You are right. It does not have to be the same rock, but to carry something, I feel I must.
martycrow I responded to you because at one time not long ago I could have written your post. Nature and upbringing I guess. But humans will always be cynical, selfish and greedy, each one with the personal opportunity and choice to raise the sparks or not. I am now being kind to myself, concerned and caring about me, I think it is the right thing, and life is much sweeter and different than before. To take the opportunity to experience that before the body gives out , or the mind, is a job too. I am older than you. It took me a long time to understand this.
@@mjcard thank you. I am trying to recalibrate so words of encouragement like yours, light the path.
martycrow All the best
Doctor Bernard Rieux: Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Love Camus, he speaks so clearly to something deep inside of me. I actually feel I already knew what he is saying in his books but had forgotten it. Thanks for helping me remember Albert 😁👍
Camus philosophy seem to resonate a lot with buddhist teachings
I read The Plague this past December, along with The Myth of Sisyphus. The prose of Camus continues to inspire and terrify me. His words have gracefully guided me onto a path that I hope will allow me to explore philosophy and literature in great detail. The timely nature of my consumption of The Plague, while I find it absurdly amusing, has also been increasingly helpful for me, both now and before all of this came to a front in the politics of the world.
Thank you guys for getting this video out. Exploring the themes of the novel again is a joy and a pleasure that I would recommend to anyone. Camus will (probably) forever be one of my favorite writers and thinkers.
I had read this about 15 years ago and remember it fondly. After watching this wonderful video I just had to download the eBook so I can read it again!
Thank you for serving his brilliant work justice with your brilliant work. By doing that, you’ve captured exactly what Camus did when Rieux said he’s just doing his job.
Literature is back! Bring back philosophy and political theory too, these series of videos are my favorites of this channel
I am reading José Saramago's Blindness.
I do so miss these series (Philosophy/Literature and the like). They were what originally drew me to the channel. (This is not to say, of course, the recent style of videos are bad)
I read The Plague over ten years ago and loved it then. Speaking of love, how about Gabriel Garcia Marquez next, say, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
I read this in October/November, struggled with the boredom of a real plague he mirrors in the text with no anticipation for how timely it would become, now here we are, quarantined...
Your videos are so well made
One of the most memorable books I've ever read. Camus became an instant favorite of mine. I grok. Thanks SOL. Wishing you and the rest of the world peace, safety and love.
I love that covid brought you to the old style videos! I hope there will be more! Thank you so much!
I missed these videos!! Thank you for bringing this format back!!
Dr. Rieux: Yes, an element of abstraction, of a divorce from reality, entered into such calamities. Still when abstraction sets to killing you, you've got to get busy with it.
Its December 23rd, we're still grappling with Covid-19 and this book mirrors our self sabotage perfectly.
OMG IM ALSO READING THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW
Ragya Kaul same. Preparing for COVID.
Same.
Another play would explain what's happening right now "waiting for godot"
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better" ~Albert Cames. Respect from Somalia. 💛
Fun fact: To avoid being approached or confronted when out in public, Albert used Camus-flage.
Sebastian Elytron Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage
I was awfully glad to see this big Marine
That was before Larry David invented the MAGA hat.
I just finished reading the book today it's amazing would definitely recommend it!!
Can you please continue making these sorts of videos. It seems before this one you gave up on doing profiles of thinkers and their works but that's what made this channel great.
"We are all living in hospice, not hospital."
Death is a somber Melody that plays the background of life. Every so often the crescendos reminding us that we are mortal. Memento Mori
That's it, you've convinced me to reread this grim book.
One of the best books ever written, no doubt. I read it a few years ago and it never really left my thoughts ever since, and now with the current events going on it made me realize yet again how accurate and grounded in reality the story was. I can not recommend this enough!
Fantastic book and one that's very relevant to the current state in the world.
@Adrian M I was very much focused on talking about similarities between human behaviour rather than the virus and plague itself when writing the comment
Thank you for sharing this. This is a heavy read, and thinking back on the text, how much it resonates with our situation right now is chilling...
Great video! It's so surreal how the world right now is focused on expansionary fiscal and monetary policies and maintaining the stock values while the rest of the world are suffering.
Suffering is indeed randomly distributed and absurd.
We are being 'bombed' back into the agrarian age.
I recently finished the novel, it´s not an easy read at all, uncountable lines that unravel the charachters´ thoughts about their own feelings and view on life. The struggle, that the reader endures, makes you feel the suffocating weight of the plague and as the story moves on you tend to come closer and closer to the fictional reality as if it were your own. When you finally reach the end, you see the whole picture and a sense of gratitude and fulfillment pervades you. A touching story of courage, determination and Love about the fragility of human existence that will enrich both your earth and mind!
4:12 I feel like this again was the thought of the western world during corona, “this won’t happen to us.” And now look.
Camus is the GOAT philosopher for me. Absolutely love his work.
Great time to read Camus’ novel The Plague, now that the Corona virus has been going on for almost a year.
I started again reading this book a couple of weeks ago in the light of the current situation. I tried to read it some years ago but I just was not able to (my ego and a few vices, the usual, you know). Then I had a chat with one good friend some months ago and he mentioned it and the core of the novel, which is that, in the face of death and adversity, one must carry on doing what one is able to. It is a powerful message for this times indeed. Thanks for the great video, loved it.
I've said it before. I'll say it again.
That I would literally envy an inanimate object for the luxury that it has demonstrates to me just how circumstantially absurd my existence is.
"And a rock feels no pain." ~ Paul Simon
Something You Said also, a rock feels no joy.
@@elleh3495 Theoretically there can be so much pain that no amount of joy can justify it. And no amount of joy can compensate for it either.
@@somethingyousaid5059 Thats the luxary you were speaking of?
How human centered of Paul Simon!! He has no idea.
@@2comment516 That a rock can't feel pain? Yes, that's the luxury that it has. And just to be clear. It isn't about a reasonable amount of pain. It's about an _unreasonable_ amount. If I knew beforehand that I was going to be forced to live most of my life in extreme pain, no amount of joy that was promised me could motivate me to want to live that life. But then that's just me.
These are the type of videos that I wish you guys still made!! Really hope there are more of these coming soon :)
Camus: ...edge of the absurd...
2020: edge? Hold my beer.
"The Plague never dies" such words are so timely now in time of the COVID-19 pandemic, indeed!
Imagine being a doctor working in oran reading la peste in the midst of the pandemic of covid-19
Atleast it not the plague talked in the vid. More painful of a death
Being a fan of Camus, I bought this book not long before C19 took hold of the UK and sent us down this storm. I fast-forwarded my reading list to make The Plague my next piece of reading material whilst all of this is taking place, and somehow, on the night I finished reading it, this video was uploaded.
Have to say it's such a bizzare coincidence and a brief moment of pure joy in all of this madness.
Stay safe people!
Albert Camus was born just 10 km away of my house, perhaps this is why I am the most pessimistic human being in my city.
you must be my neighbour then
But you see, Camus was never pessimistic, far from it.
@@adwipal Thank you! Camus believes, in a sense, a sort of comradie within the Absurdity of the universe, almost to spite the meaningless within it. Though life maybe inherently meaningless, it doesn't make it anyless important to live and have deceny with other human beings bearing the same absurd fate.
these video-collages are the best, and you guys/gals haven't been doing them lately anymore. In any way, I'm glad you posted this one though. It's not comforting but reality is indeed absurd, so it's best to understand it and accept it, to deal with life in a wiser manner and live it with its peril always in the back of our mind. It's now spring in New York and every day I take a long deep look at magnolia trees and cherry trees in bloom, and try to take it in as much as I can. They bloom for such a short time, and so do we.
“If it’s a quote, then it must be correct.”
-George Washington at the Battle of Kensington
Inconnu au bataillon.
Just started reading this again last week. A life of being a happy Sisyphus is a good one.
"... Because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune..."
... To death.
"This life is not a hospital, it is a hospice."
Superb.
Thank you for returning to your origins of providing neat summaries of epic philosophical thoughts! Loved this one! ♥
Fun drinking game: scroll through RUclips comments and look for the word 'literally'.
looolllool I'm literally drinking now and the comment below yours literally starts with the word "Literally"
bartherrijgers haha
i'm literally gonna die doing that
Easily one of the best books I have ever read. The fact that so many read the stranger and don't read this is quite sad.
Incidentally, I started reading this book yesterday ✨
Absolutely awesome review of a philosopher's book by the Philosopher's Philosopher. If only poor old Camus could have lived past his short life to see his theory proven in the 21st century. Also reassuring to see that plagues have been a part of human history forever and yet our species survives. I think there has been a collective awakening about immortality after Covid. There seems to be a post traumatic grief manifested largely as fatigue, demonstrated among other things by the 'great resignation' and search for meaning. It's all about the realistion that life leads inevitably to death and yet we tend to live as though we are immortal. Same old same old. Just remember: Carpe Diem.
I have read many of your books Alain and love your work and contribution to the post modern world. Thank you.
A part from the content of this video, I want to credit this video artist who graphics and editing is very very good!!! 👍🏻❣️
Just rewatched this after a year and a half! Shockingly, this video is still fresh and up to date!
Tanx School of life
I just finished this book and wanted to listen to someone’s analysis since I actually bought a copy and took notes all over it- A WORK OF PHILOSOPHY
History repeats itself🥺
Crazy how accurate that is
The response to that: History doesn't repeat itself. But it does rhyme.
Christian Libertarian I’ve actually never heard that but that’s probably more accurate. It’s never exactly the same, but it sure sounds and looks similar.
@@stevehaggerty51 I wish I knew who said it; it certainly wasn't me.
Read this book in my last year of (French) High School. Camus’ philosophy affected me greatly, as did this book.