"In absurdist experience, suffering is individual. But from the moment when a movement of rebellion begins, suffering is seen as a collective experience. Therefore the first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe. The malady experienced by a single man becomes a mass plague."
Albert Camus
The fact that life and experience are absurd in no way justifies the nihilistic incompetence of forced neutrality, a posture man will never be able to take seriously.
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