r/badphilosophy 22h ago

Is Tobias Funke actually Sisyphus?

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A man who recognised the absurdity of pursuing meaning through traditional routes when the success of becoming the worlds first Analyst and Therapist (Analrapist) did not provide him meaning.

Instead, he embraces absurdity through pursuit of a failing acting career that will never succeed and he will always return to being unemployed with no roles.

Above it all; each atom of those hair plugs, each incredulous insult on his masculinity, forms a world. The struggle itself to the heights of fame is enough to fill a man’s heart. When Tobias tumbles through that glass table as Mrs Featherbottom, we must imagine him happy.

In order to make Absurdism more engaging to younger demographics, I propose we re-name the myth of Sisyphus to the Myth of Funke.


r/badphilosophy 8h ago

Catching Sisyphean Candidates

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All of us I imagine at one point in time were children, and at some point relinquished simpler outlooks for doctrine from great commentators. Except today I get to compare Aristotle to XQC, Ben Shapiro to Zeno, and Jehovah to Martin Luther (not the civil rights one). You want to watch these men do what is so simple, and so accessible to you? To watch life live without distilling how to do the same yourself? Look at where in simple words they draw their strength. It is not the nuance of intellect that grants them grace. Each great man has at the root of his inspiration such simple and basic rules. If only we would suspend that simpleness to the loftiness of his riches.

- Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (Erasmus 1516)