What does YOLO has to do with Camus?




Everyone has experienced at least sometime the absence of meaning in our lives. Maybe produced by a sense of loneliness or monotony of the daily routine that drags you to a senseless appreciation of what we do, feel or think.



“The Stranger” by Camus, offers an accurate prediction of what the world would be once we embrace the meaninglessness of human life.

The aftermath of the millennial generation that accepts same-sex marriage and fights for the right of women to decide whether to give birth or not, is a deeply fear to hold on to their own beliefs, a strong fear to be judged as “close minded”. But, is it really that bad to be closed minded? Maybe it's just overrated.



The millennial stranger is a lover of the carpe diem, pragmatic and hedonist culture... Sounds familiar? Right, the YOLO culture.

You Only Live Once... If there's no meaning or trascendency on what I do today, maybe it is ok to live for the moment, when there is no consecuence to what I do today, because there's only this life and it's meant to be lived according to what each one of us desires.



The “YOLO” belief leads us to experience a “fast food” society, where everything needs to be immediate and practical.

Education needs to be practical and immediate: let us produce minds that obey, not create, but wait! there is no time for proceses, learn as fast as you can or you will not be competitive enough.


Economy needs to be practical and immediate: don't think about the future, live for the moment, buy and enjoy now, pay and think later.

Religion needs to be practical and immediate: there's no time for going to the church to pray and be thankful, but there is plenty of time to blame God for our own faults and asking him for a new job.


Politic needs to be practical and immediate: weapons are now the easiest and fastest way to force “peace”.


The millennial stranger doubts about the trascendence of everything, but commits with nothing. He is a solitary human that abandons God, and gets comfort with any Netflix release. 

Another life motto for the millennial stranger would be “Ignorance is bliss”.


I better not know what's happening between Israel and Gaza. Neither I can help or is something that affects me so, why do I have to care about it? It isn't my problem. Again, I rather choose entertainment, instead of inspiration.



The Camus absurdity, well represented by the killing of the Arab and the marriage of Meursault with Marie, (both mean the same for the character: nothing) leads us to the understanding that humankind has finally reached the surviving era: as long as I get what I want, I don't care about anything else, and even when I get what I want, I don't care about it anymore.

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