Camus Asked the Wrong Question About Sisyphus

InThe Myth ofSisyphus, Camus asks whether the meaninglessness of life requires that a rational person commit suicide.

“No,” he answers. “It requires revolt.”

He is wrong, because the question is wrong. It shows the essential flaw of all human-centered, therefore self-centered, philosophy.

Revolt by whom, against what?

Life is only futile or not futile, absurd or not absurd, depending on the self-centered story being told about it. So, Sisyphus’ eternal pushing of the...