To start off this blog entry, I need to make it clear that The Fall literally killed me with boredom. There could not be any story more full of nonsense and experiences all pushed together as if they are coherent. Clemance bores me with all of his stories, and the narrative… The style of the writing is nauseating because one story falls into another and it seems like an endless cycle of lessons where Clemance simply changes his opinion on everything based on his experiences. With that mini-rant over, Camus has a point in his story about judgment. Every single human being has judged another human, whether it was a positive judgment or a negative judgment. The latter, it seems, is most prevalent and can impact our reality and future experiences. Since we all judge in one way or another, do we feel any remorse for it? Should we feel bad after we have judged someone? What does it mean if we don’t feel bad after doing it? It must mean that we find ourselves superior to whom we are judging. For example, during the group presentation on Wednesday, I noticed two students making fun of one of the presenters, deeming themselves “superior” to how he acted and presented himself, and the material he was covering. I find that judgment is a temporary entertainment that we provide for ourselves. Negative judgments should stay that way: a little comment to oneself to temporarily lighten the mood or to de-stress. Positive judgments have their own place: out into the open. It is important to be reminded that you are no better than the next person. We are all human and our outer appearances are simply containers for our brain and consciousness. If there were a room full of brains resting on desks instead of human bodies, would judgment matter? Would we even feel the need to judge? Camus writes, “What will future generations say of modern man... He fornicates and reads the newspapers.” His answer is very bleak and at the same time describes humanity so well. Is the meaning of life to reproduce and educate? Is that all that we have accomplished?