Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus portrayed the image of Sisyphus who scorned the Gods and was condemned to spend all of eternity pushing a rock up a mountain, only for it to roll back down to the bottom. There was no end in sight for Sisyphus, no respite and no sense that what he was doing had any meaning.
Isn’t this the day-to-day routine most, if not all, of us do throughout our feeble lives? Aren’t we all living in the inferno, by your “new definition?” But where is the humanity Camus used the Sisyphus metaphor to depict?
And speaking of which, the first and simplest act of civil disobedience is to change one's perspective from an "us vs. them" mentality to a more universal notion of humanity. As prevalent as the notion of “green vs. blue” in Taiwan, I am personally very pessimistic about the upcoming so-called “civil disobedience.”
Posted by Homeless Formosan
at August 30,2006 22:30