“I am not in the mood today.”
As a penalty, he was handed the task of rolling a large rock up the top of a mountain – for keep. Fair deal, Sisyphus must have said to himself. After all, a community service is better than capital punishment.
Hasten not to blame Sisyphus for not trying harder. Homer’s account did tell us that he tried everything possible. In today’s terms, he is motivated type. He listens to audio and pod casts of motivational speakers over his car stereo or headphones as he embarks on his futile labour to the summit. He would have taken some time off to fast and pray harder or acquire some degrees in mountaineering and material science, even up to the doctoral level.
It is safe to say that Sisyphus saw through the plot of existential absurdity and the futility of the rock-rolling task. He could have in his self-abnegation and sorrow recoil to resignation. He could give up the toil or explore suicide – in defeat. Gethsemane nights are never devoid of suicide thoughts. But such extreme wouldn’t take the monster of a stone anywhere or sway the gods from awaiting him in the yonder. He saw the futility of suicide too – his loss, the rock’s gain.
Today’s world is not any better than Sisyphus’ uphill task or Camus’s Europe in the 1950s. More than ever in the last 100 years, the modern world faces an existential crisis and horror that has held the entire humanity spellbound.
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