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Posted 27 January, 2008
Filed under: Cinema, Europe's Jews, films, French history, happiness, heart of darkness, Jews, literature, musings, philosophy, Reflections, religion, writing | Tags: 1945, absurd, albert camus, auschwitz, death, existentialism, gale anne hurd, james cameron, kind, l'etranger, mankind, mortality, rebel, the stranger
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Filed under: Cinema, Europe's Jews, films, French history, happiness, heart of darkness, Jews, literature, musings, philosophy, Reflections, religion, writing | Tags: 1945, absurd, albert camus, auschwitz, death, existentialism, gale anne hurd, james cameron, kind, l'etranger, mankind, mortality, rebel, the stranger
Comments (5) Notes for a movie by Albert Camus & James Cameron
We are biological machines programmed only to survive.
We are born condemned to death.
To survive we must not take that ludicrous condition lying down.
We must rebel against it with kindness (as in ‘mankind’).
We need to learn to live in the present to maximise our own happiness.
That happiness must be available to the whole of our kind as a context for our individual happiness.
Marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945
