Blog Post #3: Response to part lll and part lV

"Life is a series of meaningless actions culminating in death"

I liked this quote from Banach alot because it really made me think and share a different side of insight to my usual train of thinking. I think that what Banach is saying in his Lecture is that humans handle series of events in a way that they can achieve fun or excitement or other emotions as much as they could through them. These events happen so that we as humans have something to do, distracting us until our ends. A common saying is always heard throughout our years, "life is too short", which i believe to be true. I too think about how short life is to come out on top as celebrities do or the very much wealthy. Maybe thats why those people living the glamourous life is always on our television screens and magazine covers, so that we may read up on them and get a glimpse of the lives we wish to have.

Banach believed that in order for us to be free, we must desire the freedom of all men. I connected this thought with another quote he had in his lecture, "It is self-defeating to attempt to use other humans as objects to satisfy our desires". Immediately i had thought backwards into history to slavery times, where owning slaves was desired and modern between Humans, trading them around and selling/buying actual human beings, taking them for granted. Obviously we live the exact opposite lifestyle now where all men are treated equally and fair, in some state of manner, but i still dont see how we as individuals are free now that freedom in all men is given. Not to contradict Banach or rearrange his words but suppose if he hadnt included the freedom of Prisoners, and they're condemnement as men without freedom, then is letting all those go and allowed to live freely outside of jail going to make us better as people?

In Banach's lecture he mentions "The Myth of Sisyphus" and the story of Sisyphus is shared in his words. The myth of Sisyphus says that as punishment to the 'condemned' Sisyphus, they thought WITH REASON that there was no better (and dreadful)punishment than "futile and hopeless labor". Its funny because in our day and age now, and not mythical, we almost reward Prisoners with LESS than petty wages to do hourly services within correctional facilities until the day they are released so that they have money to claim on the outside. It was interesting tho to find in Banach's Lecture that Philosophers believe that if one's sources of external value have been taken away, you will then find value within yourself. Two children stories were included to create a visual of what this means, How the Grinch stole Christmas and The Wizard of Oz. Both show the moral of the story to be that they're real values came from within, and for all they're time to be wasted chasing things representing value to them, and the value found from within was much greater than any external thing they possessed or seeked, because it could never be taken away.