The crisis stems from our absurd attitude that maintaining a wasteful, inefficient, unsustainable and, yes, immoral lifestyle is good for us, something to which we are entitled.
This absurd attitude pervades the GOP side of the aisle but imagine if Congress treated the potential for war in the same manner.
But comparing the death toll of even just this one week's attacks versus all of the gun homicides in Canada, Spain, and Germany in a calendar year 16 vs. 166 serves as a grim reflection on just how much senseless large-scale violence Americans have convinced themselves is OK, and how absurd that attitude is.
His stories are absurd and his attitudes deplorable.
It is wildly absurd, and the macho attitudes are complacent, to say the least.
"It's the most absurd, simplistic and colonial attitude," he said.
Claiming that he shared the fury of passengers, he said: "Most industrial disputes are about threats to employment or conditions so the RMT's attitude is absurd.
During a recent television interview with Wendel, the talk-show host Markus Lanz called Trump's attitude toward immigrants absurd.
In short, he hardly seemed the type of Foreign Service officer to go rogue, but he has an impish eye for the absurd and a common-sensical attitude that was deeply frustrated in the political-military bureaucracy that had evolved in Iraq by the time he arrived in 2009.
In Camus' words, artistic activity is one of the key attitudes to face the absurd.
