The cycling Sisyphus

Manuel Roca scrive qualcosa d’assurdo.
The book-length essay 'The Myth of Sisyphus' is Albert Camus’s statement on the philosophy of the absurd. What the French thinker attempt to do is to cast some light on what, he considers, the most important of all the philosophical questions: ‘judging whether life is or is not worth living’. He maintains that human condition is filled with meaninglessness and therefore wonders whether people should commit suicide to escape this absurdity? Stating that ‘at any corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face’, Camus is referring to the constant repetition of men everyday existence, ‘the acts of mechanical life’ as he puts it. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… Waking up, going to work, dinner… All the same thing day in day out. But, Camus believes that when men begin to get awareness of this tragic situation, would also get confronted by ‘the impulse of consciousness’ which will spark two options. The first one is the refusal of life and the suicide resolution, whereas the second one sustains rebellion and rejection of death. Of course, Camus supports the second choice suggesting that the recognition of this tragic existence will be the solution to overcome absurdity. In other words, men must incorporate into the absurd to justify their existence after having acknowledged ‘the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle’. In addition, he states that, ‘from the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all.’ It is only by taking the absurd seriously and acknowledging the conflict between the human desire to give sense to existence and the failure to do so that permits the overcome of this contradiction. This is the very gesture of revolt men need undertaking in order to turn the absurd into passion.
Manuel Roca finisce di leggere e pensa alla sua bici. Non e’ assurda tutta quella fatica fatta per nessun motivo apparente? Camus direbbe di no. Manuel Roca e’ un vero rivoluzionario. Non solo accetta l’assurdita’ della vita ma si ribella a questa macinando chilometri, day in day out.