Chaos. Camus.

On the reflection of Chaos.

Harold Goddard believed Shakespeare’s main theme was ‘ chaos.’ and the ‘ cure for it’ One could take Schopenhauer’s view that our individual life is made of perpetual chaos and adversary : One dies with sword in hand. A Jungian would say, therefore, our inner nature is in permanent chaos, and a Freudian would connect it with our perpetual aggressive instincts which must be projected outward or less destroy ourselves. - A theory very akin to Schopenhauer’s, and Nietzsche. Shakespeare’s main cause was very similar to Freud’s ’ Man must by perforce prey upon each other like monsters from the deep’ - Man must by necessity act upon each other : In relation to his aggressive instincts and to ward off other’s aggressions; this leads to imperialism, rape, avarice etc. And one can come to the conclusion, that which we call virtue is civilized aggression.

Camus.

Camus’s protagonist in ‘The outsider’ main complaint is the eternal flux of things, rather than the indifference of the world and nature. One would only have to count how many lamentations there are in reargards to the temporality of sense data, and comments thereof sense experiences, and therein lies his main fitful distinction, it is not that he is enlightened at the ontology of being, but that he is himself a perpetual changing of sense data and one without a core - Thus, he only kills the Arab due to circumstance and because the sun shining in his eyes. The existentialist critique at the end of the book seems tacked on to make a didactical point - and is confirming an expression rather than a statement, belied by the fact, that his ending epiphany is the relief of nature’s sense experiences. Unlike most people, I think Camus is extremely mediocre with a weak critique that belies his own passionless forays, and a mere mediocre imitator of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. One would only have to witness his political liberal herding - He and Sartre cry out ‘individual’ while feeling their tails! They join ‘Communism’, or try to establish ‘ Liberal political edifices’ such as the EU, or any other society of mandarins and bell ringing.