{"id":15308,"date":"2023-07-13T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2023-07-23T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:20:24","slug":"camus-et-moi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/13\/camus-et-moi\/","title":{"rendered":"Camus et Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Albert Camus was born\n\nInto a poor working class family \n\nHis father who was barely literate \n\nWorked as an agricultural labourer in a vineyard \n\nHe was killed at the first Battle of the Marne \n\nCamus always felt the absurdity of his pointless death \n\nI personally would refuse to fight if my country was at war\n\nNot that I am a coward far from it but because of the absurd nature of war\n\nThis is how it goes one is lets say in a foreign field \n\nCharging towards an enemy trench when a sniper kills you \n\nThe said sniper has no quarrel with you \n\nBut he has still blown your brains out \n\nOr if in reverse you kill an enemy soldier \n\nYou surprise him and use your bayonet and he dies at your feet \n\nIn another life you might have met him whilst travelling abroad \n\nA friendship might have been formed \n\nThat is the absurdity of war \n\nCamus once said \n\nA death in a car crash is absurd because a car crash is objectively meaningless\n\nHe died in car accident in 1960 \n\nI wonder if he appreciated the irony of his death \n\nWhen I was nineteen I was involved in a serious car crash  \n\nThe driver was very seriously injured and never worked again \n\nNot only did I survive the accident but I was totally uninjured \n\nPeople at the time said that it was God's will \n\nWhereas others said that this is the same God \n\nWho in time would watch us all die \n\nWe are all on Death Row having committed no crime \n\nI find this really absurd \n\nBut for some reason do not question it \n\nI will not fly as I do not feel in control \n\nThat is as absurd as feeling comfortable \n\nOn high speed trains or on ships at sea \n\n\n\nJoe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Camus was born Into a poor working class family His father who was barely literate Worked as an agricultural labourer in a vineyard He was killed at the first Battle of the Marne Camus always felt the absurdity of his pointless death I personally would refuse to fight if my country was at war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}