Dangerous Temptations

“The most dangerous temptation: to be like nothing at all.” ― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935–1941, p. 32

Not to imply in some trope that one should be all unique or anything. No one is a special snowflake. And in a world where nothing matters, trying had to be unique is just as bad as trying to find meaning. But I think it is a dangerous temptation to be like nothing at all. Camus rejected the labels that people gave him, decidedly avoided getting lumped into the existentialist crowd, and forged his own approach. This has given us Absurdism, in its incomplete glory and paradoxical completeness.

-DA