Absurdity

Absurdity is where there’s a fundamental gap in understanding that’s unbridgeable.

It can even extend into horror where you cannot look away because it is so important.

Many experience this with seeing car crashes and falling into a contemplation of death. They wonder whether they can see past the veil of death, and they just stare. They won’t see past the veil of death, at most they will see a dead body.

It’s an issue of disconnect between yourself and the cosmos.

It is one of the Seven Plagues and its cure is enlensing

It is linked to the concept of fatality in stoicism or the intrinsic application of meaning to events which thus makes people vulnerable to feeling bad when the events go in a way contrary to it. Romantic comedies are a key problem with the hydroplane of romance