Camus and Curren$y: Why I Preach Indie

“Carved out my lane and chilled.”

“When I got by myself I found myself and realized/if I was a child in these times, I wouldn’t want to follow in the steps of these guys”

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Granted this is a harsh example to use in practice, but it highlights and reiterates a central theme of the essay, creating one’s own reason to live or rather, reclaiming agency over that reason.

Why would I care about the “way things are” if I’m actively trying to change that?

Camus refers to the Artist as wholly embodying the absurd life, creating a new world parallel to our existing one that is entirely satisfied with description instead of explanation. This defines absurdity. The explanation for things is irrelevant, because in the grand scheme, there are none. All we have at our disposal are our descriptions, our per... See more

We create our own reason to live, not a meaning to life. If life has no meaning, it is entirely up to us to determine how we want to live, what purpose we want to fulfill. As Jean Paul Sartre would put it, we define our existence by determining our own essence, or the things that make us us. It is also up to us to grapple with the terrors that come... See more

Again, the idea of manifesting your own ideas of success, your reasons for life, plays a huge role here. It allows ego to be put to the side in favor of accomplishing a common goal, an idea that we can do it differently this time.