The Sons of Cain [the rebel by Albert Camus]
now, reading this means I’ve overcame a bad time of thinking I found true love to just to get everything taken away from me by the choices of time — not my fault I do not blame myself, but I am reassured at last that I have found the one. And agree with myself upon this 1000 times.
But a while back, I was going through a rough time. In the book there is a section I haven’t read past since I closed this book in rage.
Metaphysical rebellion — and about the difference between one with the mental power to change and one with the physical power.
Metaphysical rebellion, in the real sense of the term, does not appear, in coherent form, in the history of ideas until the end of the eighteenth century—when modern times began to be the accompaniment of the cars of the falling ramparts. But from then on, its consequences develop uninterruptedly and its mo exaggeration to say that they have shaped the history of our times. Does this mean that metaphysical rebellion had no significance previous significance to this date? In any event, its origins must belong to the remote past, in that way we like to believe that we live in Promethean times, but is this really a Promethean age?