Sisyphus: The Absurd Hero or Asymptomatic Case? An office worker wakes up to an alarm at six in the morning, sits in two hours of traffic, and spends eight hours entering data into a spreadsheet. The next day, the alarm rings at six again, and the exact same cycle repeats. This routine can continue for forty years. It is easy to look at this loop and feel a sense of emptiness, wondering what the point of it all is when the work is never truly finished.This regular human experience is why a single line from a mid-twentieth-century French essay continues...