Myths of Meaning

To some the word myth means lie. It's a myth. To others like Jung and Joseph Campbell the word myth means a collective and universal truth. The myth of diogenes is a story of a real Greek philosopher named Diogenes from Sinope on the Black Sea who lived in Athens in extreme poverty and asceticism and taugh that man should live by satisfying his natural needs in the easiest practical way, ignoring conventions. He is …

…is also possible to see Sisyphus as heoic and noble, ennobled by the struggle itself. This non-traditional interpretation seeks to ask what would happen if Sisyphus (man) simply carried the stone to the top of the hill and put it down and it remained there. If man attains all he seeks, what happens next? As Voltaire suggested, boredom is one of the great ills of the human condition: we need to be about our work.