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Here you are.

Somehow, either through the combination of tragic events in

which you felt the harsh stabbing of the truth of life bleed you out into a melancholy, or the sudden realization of the meaninglessness of your world and the indifference the universe reflects upon humanity,

you have decided to willingly climb the structure of a building and let the entirety of your existence smack into a sidewalk.

You know all the cliches.

You have a life worth living.

Well, okay, but then why is my life's purpose reserved to the cruelty of chaotic existence?

We care about you and love you.

Well, I'm sure there must be some honesty behind this statement, but why has this been brought to my attention now

and not the moments preceding the one in which I was about to leave your life?

It makes sense to end it, right?

Once an individual spends a good amount of time trying to find some objective purpose of being here, they end up pretty disappointed by their findings.

The world makes no sense.

You're brought up under the assumption that the bad will get what they truly deserve

and the good will be rewarded for their deeds.

Then why do horrible things happen?

And why, when late at night you ask the cosmos, why do these things happen?

Why does anything happen?

Are you met with absolute silence?

No one cares, and why should you?

Why should you live?

You take one breath and just as you're about to let go?

Habité!

A man grabs your arm and greets you with a warm smile.

The stench of 1940s French cigarettes is the first thing to greet your perception of Albert Camus, one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century.

Camus loved life.

He loved soccer, he loved women, the more the merrier, and he loved, loved, loved art.

Okay then, Camus, are you going to teach me some type of hippie crap?

Are you going to convert me to our lord and savior?

No!

You see, Camus may be one of the best characters in history to agree with you on this perceived utter meaninglessness of the world.

Camus even has a name for this.

Not necessarily the meaningless of the world itself, but when people perceive it.

Absurdity, he calls it.

Camus believes that we live in an absurd world because of our human tendency to try to search for reason, truth, and some type of meaning.

We set systems to determine these truths through religion and even philosophy itself, but they never seem to completely work out.

Simply because the way the world works, the way reality functions, isn't under these truths.

If the world wasn't absurd, no innocent people would die.

People that are honest and work hard would be rewarded.

Your very healthy and young dog wouldn't suddenly grow a tumor and die.

But we live in an absurd world and these things do happen.

Part of the thing that's such a bummer about this absurdity is how frustrated we get about all this chaos

and unjust fate.

We try to make sense of the world and the world doesn't appear to make any sense at all.

Then we feel defeated and crumble under the weight of all this hopeless suffering.

This realization isn't necessarily.. the worst thing that could happen.

In fact, it is the beginning of one of the truest ways to live.

Camus states that nothing becomes a tragedy until the hero is conscious of their circumstances.

All these people driving into work, stuck in traffic, and cursing racial slurs, cramping their backs over filing legal reports in small office cubicles,

only to return home, splurge on various centers of satisfaction, just enough to get them to do it again the next day.

For the most part, these people never go, why?

Their life is not a tragedy.

But you did.

You asked, why do I go to work?

So I can get money for those new Air Jordan XX9s.

Why do you want that?

So I can be a sick baller.

Why do you want to be that?

So I can impress this girl at my gym.

Why do you want to impress her?

Because I think I have the possibility to fall in love with her.

Why do you want to fall in love?

Because then I will be happy.

Why do you want to be happy? Because it feels good.

Why does it matter if you feel good?

It's better than feeling bad.

Why does it feel better?

It just does?

You saw that there was a logical fallacy in anything you did, that eventually you reach a point where you go, What is the point?

So you're here.

Thanks Camus.

Yes, you are conscious of your existence and you think suicide will solve the absurdity and meaninglessness of it all.

But have you considered your other alternatives?

You see for Camus there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

All other questions, whether there was truly three dimensions, whether we have nine or twelve categories in our minds,

which eye is Sartre's good eye, these are secondary.

Camus takes this seriously and presents us with this idea of the reason why we off ourselves.

We do it because we are conscious of the absurdity of our world and our existence, and we simply cannot take it anymore.

Suicide to him is confessing that life is too much for you, or that you do not understand it.

It is merely confessing that...

It is not worth the trouble.

Camus knows you're stronger than this, and you know somewhere inside yourself you are stronger than this.

Have you ever considered the strength that you hold as a human being?

You are the universe attempting to figure itself out.

Don't end it because you got confused.

Because these rules that other people made up don't happen to coincide with the way the universe is.

Don't surrender to the absurdity.

Camus says that, In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Within every individual is this power to be happy, to enjoy life in the desert of their existence.

Albert Camus knew this, and he knew

that arguing with a suicidal nihilist will amount to no good

if he tried to use any system of purpose because that's just not something you do with a nihilist.

Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning. But the suffering, Camus.

What about the suffering?

This is totally the absurd's fault, man.

And do you know what you should do?

You should revolt against it.

Scorn it but never deny its existence.

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You have to accept it scornfully. But how?

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Camus uses the Greek myth of Sisyphus to really nail this point home.

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Sisyphus is one badass guy and he's running around being an asshole to the gods.

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He chains up death and then spills beans about super secret god stuff.

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So they grab Sisyphus, give him a boulder and tell him to roll it up a hill.

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But when he rolls it to the top it rolls back down.

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In fact, every time he rolls it up, he rolls back down.

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He is performing a task of absolute futility, meaninglessness.

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Sisyphus is in a good position.

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He knows that his purpose, his actions in life, are meaningless, and he's stuck there.

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He knows this too because he is condemned.

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But Sisyphus, at least in Camus interpretation, is one smart guy.

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Sisyphus doesn't hope that eventually things get better.

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He doesn't develop some deity or pray to the gods to stop his suffering.

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He doesn't jump off the top of a mountain to end his suffering and kill himself.

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No. Sisyphus enjoys it.

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He is in the moment.

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He embraces the absurdity of his condition, and by enjoying it, he revolts against it.

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He is scornful.

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Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night -filled mountain in itself forms a world.

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Now, why the hell are you going to jump off here?

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Live, goddammit.

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We are all participants in existence and we all suffer, and whether there is a greater or less suffering in others is not an appropriate argument,

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because suffering itself should be but a greater reason for compassion among us in a meaningless desert.

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And in this desert we shall create.

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Continue to push the boulder of existence, of life, not because you may reach the top and be done, but because it is in the suffering, in the hardest of our times,

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in our loneliest of lonelies, in our daily struggle to comprehend just how absurd everything is.

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We experience the most fullest, genuine, and beautiful of life that our human condition has to offer.

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Thank you.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Camus, Sisyphus, suffering, existence, absurdity。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が130文、単語が1517語あります。音声の長さは8:37です。話す速さは1分あたり約176語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。単語の83%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。全130文のうち29文が疑問文なので、疑問文のイントネーションや短い受け答えの練習に向いています。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
meaninglessness 名詞	/ˈminɪŋlɪsnɪs/	無意味
absurd 形容詞	/əbˈsɜːd/	馬鹿らしい, 愚か
meaningless 形容詞	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/	無意味な, つまらない
boulder 名詞	/ˈboʊl.dɚ/	玉石, 大石
realization 名詞	/ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/	実現, 達成
perceive 動詞	/pɚˈsiv/	知覚する, 認める
revolt 名詞	/ɹɪˈvoʊlt/	反乱
greet 動詞	/ɡɹiːt/	挨拶する, 出迎える
confess 動詞	/kənˈfɛs/	認める, 自白する
coincide 動詞	/ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/	重なる
crumble 動詞	/ˈkɹʌmbəl/	崩れる
cubicle 名詞	/ˈkjuːbɪkəl/	個室
fallacy 名詞	/ˈfæl.ə.si/	いんちき, 欺瞞
indifference 名詞	/ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/	無関心, 冷淡さ
invincible 形容詞	/ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/	倒せない, 無敵の

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
bring up 動詞	育てる

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

Are you met with absolute silence?
No one cares, and why should you?
You take one breath and just as you're about to let go?
You asked, why do I go to work?
Why do you want that?

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	been brought · will be rewarded · would be rewarded
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	have decided · have you considered · Have you ever considered

注意したい発音

話し手はdoesn't, you're, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を16回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: absurdity /æbˈsɝd.ɪ.ti/, meaninglessness /ˈminɪŋlɪsnɪs/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, futility /fjuˈtɪləti/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, revolt /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/, crumble /ˈkɹʌmbəl/, scornful /ˈskɔɹnfəl/, scornfully /ˈskɔɹnfəli/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: perceive /pɚˈsiv/, revolt /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, novelist /ˈnɑvəlɪst/, savior /ˈseɪvjɚ/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: confess /kənˈfɛs/, fallacy /ˈfæl.ə.si/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/, futility /fjuˈtɪləti/, indifference /ɪnˈdɪf.ɹəns/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。meaninglessness, absurd, meaninglessなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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