19 - Camus and the Meaning of Life

What this episode covers

Do you have a second to talk about the meaning of life? Albert Camus did. His last book, The Fall, gets to the heart of it. This Nobel prize winning author lost his dad to WWI, grew up in Algeria, worked with the resistance in WWII France, and wrote most of his works in the shadow of the Holocaust. Why are we here? What is life all about? If life doesn’t have meaning, should we just give it all up, buy a Winnebago, and roam North America listening to Bob Dylan CDs? Dylan said the answer is blowin’ in the wind. Camus might have agreed, but he put it differently, the answer is within you. Camus died in a car accident at the young age of 47. In the midst of a global pandemic, Barry and Aaron take a few minutes to talk and debate the question of life’s ultimate meaning.