Journal 18
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely that your very existence is an act of rebellion." --Albert Camus
Journal #18:
In the past, where the world faced a series of depressions, wars and social problems. In all of those situations, particular individuals rose in the public eyes to bring hope and peace to the masses. Those individuals were not always political scholars but regular people that decided to fight a problem. When I think of Camus' quote I think of those regular individuals becoming the face of a fight. Even now we have regular individuals that come to mind when we think of a problem. For example, when I think of the Black Lives Matter movement, I think about Michael Brown. However in this quote, I imagine someone like Katniss Everdeen, I know she's fictional, but her character fits the quote. Living in a corrupt society, Katniss stood up as the face of the rebellion. Katniss became the rebellion. The government wanted to get rid of her because just by her existing it was an act of rebellion, as the quote states. However there are plenty of real life individuals who are examples of Albert Camus' quote.
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