The Absurd
I am compelled to write about the picture which was on the front page of the Thursday edition of the New York Times. My thoughts will have to be held in abeyance, until I can change my password for my Godaddy account. This morning I received a email note from my friends at Godaddy. I was advised there is reason to believe my email account password has been compromised. So I must change it before I can receive any more emails or transmit any photos from my iphone. As the Times photo is on my iphone, retrieving it will have to wait until I can change my password.
The password business is not unrelated to the image that I’d like to share and to my thoughts about the image. At this time, a computer that you and I can purchase for a few hundred dollars has the processing power, along with the appropriate software,— to crack passwords which are combinations of the dates and letter combinations that easily might come to our minds. The processor will attempt all combinations of letters and numbers, at high speed 
until it finds the sequence that unlocks your email account, or your bank account. You have been compromised.
The processing power; the ability to attempt, at light speed, all manner of combinations is the secret of computing prowess. In machine vs human, the human will lose, every time. I am sure this is not the last time I’ll be asked by my hosting service to change my password.
The absurd is that the computing machine is the creation of humans.
That you do not despair at envelopment by the absurd,– here is this…..
If you love what you’re doing,
and if what you love has genuine human-sized value
your life can have depth and purpose
even if it involves incongruity and failure,
and even if the Universe cares naught for it, or for you.
Talking seriously about philosophy…….
while the country falls apart – you could call it absurd.
But you could also look up,……
call it beautiful.
Then get back to work.
—-excerpt, Is philosophy Absurd?
by Helena de Bres
