Notes for a movie by Albert Camus & James Cameron
We are biological machines programmed only to survive.
We are born condemned to death.
To survive we must not take that ludicrous condition lying down.
We must rebel against it with kindness (as in 'mankind').
We need to learn to live in the present to maximise our own happiness.
That happiness must be available to the whole of our kind as a context for our individual happiness.
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'Ludicrous', I have just read, derives from the Latin for 'stage play' (I was guessing it had to do with games and playing) which is just right for a writer who started out in the theatre and set such great store by it. Mankind as an actor on the receiving end of a scriptwriter, however absurd and nonsensical, was a theme through his thinking.
And man derives from the anglo-saxon word 'manne' which referred to men and women. They did not differentiate.
Something like 'Mensch' in German I suppose
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