[DiamondFox]

Can you elaborate on the second part more?

As someone who's always suspected that Camus' characters (and the author himself) actually cared too intensely because they were unable to change events/people around them, I've never found compelling proof that totally convinced me his work wasn't nihilism masquerading as meditations on the inability of individuals to alter phenomena outside of their control.

[pducks32]

It's a complicated argument. Instead of doing the formal argument I rather give the anecdotal one because a few years back I finally understood it. It just clicked. Basically Camus says the world does not give a damn about you. It has no interest in you. Nothing matters objectively, so why the f* are you here? Get rid of yourself already!! If you're not going to accept that the nothing has meaning and that only you can give something it then you are living a lie. When you accept that nothing has meaning you are ready to give meaning to things you want; knowing that the meaning comes from within. I don't want to write an essay here but I have more to say so if that doesn't fill your interest feel free to DM me on Twitter (@pducks32).