А mass protest against themselves
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to push a whole rock incessantly to the top of a mountain, where the stone rolled again because of its weight. They had thought, not without right, that there was no punishment more terrible than useless and hopeless labour.” (Albert Camus)
Camus says, “It is now clear that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. Absurd as much for his passions as for his torment. His contempt for the gods, his hatred of death, and his thirst for life have brought him this unspeakable torture in which the whole being is strained for something impossible.”
He had robber tendencies. He was frivolous. But his Sisyphus remains at the foot of the mountain and we imagine him happy. And the stone, the stone is abandoned… neglected, uncared for and alone.
After 36 years of trekking it has stopped at a place from which there is no moving forward.
