Jean-Paul Sartre,"Man is a useless passion". Is anybody still alive to support his theory of the Absurd?

I think he must have been depressed and discouraged about his own lack of goal-directed self-control. Rather than seeing his words as an absurd theory, perhaps they could be seen as an expression of his emotions.





Some words to encourage and uplift might have helped him.





It does seem that there still are many people (myself included) whose self-control is lacking... so we aimlessly wend our way through a stream of "useless passion" (ie.. emotion/momentary desires that divert us from useful purpose).|||To spend many years longing and passionately building a life, just to die. Seems to me that is pretty useless. To create and produce beauty just to watch it destroyed, that also seems pretty useless. We seem to use the short time we have wastefully, and then just regret for the final days of life.|||I can understand what he is saying. If man is constantly trying to imitate an unrealized figure then God is only understood from individual perception. And the ideas of who God is and how this being thinks is only their own idea of themselves. Thus the dog chasing its own tail.|||"In life, the worst disasters come from passion."__EURIPIDES