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Modern Sisyphus: The Absurdity of the Corporate World

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By Unwana Johnson

In his seminal 1942 essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus shows us the ultimate archetype of the absurd: a man condemned by the gods to push a massive boulder up a mountain, only to watch it roll back down to the bottom for all eternity. Camus famously concludes that “one must imagine Sisyphus happy.” Why? Because in the conscious acknowledgment of the meaninglessness of his task, Sisyphus achieved a defiant victory over his tormentors. Albert Camus, Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum But Camus, brilliant as he was, lacked the imagination to foresee the ultimate evolution of…

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