"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." How should we understand this assertion by Albert Camus in his work The Myth of Sisyphus? And what is objectionable about it? This is the little philosophical stroll to which I invite you in this Licorne (Unicorn) #41.

In the current era, where totalitarianism is only mild according to the interpretation given to it by our denial, it is important to show that it is rooted in a complete loss of meaning in existence. Not that meaning has truly deserted the human condition, in which case our conscience might call for revolt, as the philosophy of Albert Camus suggested, but rather that it has been inverted. What is above is no longer like what is below; the micro mistakes itself for the macro;

On the 65th anniversary of his death, it may be useful to take stock of his thinking, to ask ourselves how this famous philosopher and novelist would undoubtedly have understood our times, but above all, what we could take away from his work to fill our humanist bag.

We are rightly protesting against the totalitarian drift that has been explicitly visible since the spring of 2020. This civic, moral and spiritual protest is essential, because it expresses our concern to preserve the roots, in particular Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian, of our current civilization. If we define, in a laconic way, totalitarianism as the ambition of "total domination" (H. Arendt), with imperialist methods, including the monopoly of communication, the confisca