#OutlookMagazine | In this fictional account by Rakhi Bose, potatoes are metaphorically used to highlight various issues like lynchings, communal violence and the condition of media in a post-truth world.
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00:00 When the Greek king Sisyphus managed to beat death not once but twice, Hades, the god of
00:06 the underworld, punished Sisyphus.
00:09 Sisyphus would have to push a rock eternally up a mountain only to start over once the
00:14 task is done.
00:15 He was alive but endlessly stuck in the trappings of his own existence.
00:21 Centuries later, a pacifist French-Algerian philosopher, pondering over the absurdity
00:26 of life and rattled by meaningless wars, found in Sisyphus the perfect hero for his times.
00:34 Albert Camus saw Sisyphus as one who lives life to the fullest, hates death and is condemned
00:41 to repeating a meaningless task endlessly till the end which ends in nothingness.
00:48 An absurd man in an absurd world.
00:52 We all feel a bit like Sisyphus sometimes, stuck in our own cursed life cycles, endlessly
00:57 repeating ourselves as the great wave of humanity surges on and on without rebate or respite.
01:05 But how to break this cycle?
01:07 Camus suggested that we imagine Sisyphus to be happy.
01:12 As media persons in a post-truth world that is changing faster than we can record, this
01:17 is true for most of us.
01:19 In this issue of Outlook, we take a cue from the absurdists and imagine a world that is
01:24 smiling and a world that is good.
01:27 A world where all news is good news and bad news is only bad until it becomes good.
01:34 To paraphrase Camus, however miserable one is, there is always something to be thankful
01:41 for.
01:42 And each morning when the sky brightens and light begins to flood my cell, I agree.