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'''Vladmir:''' Oh pardon! I could have sworn it was a carrot.|'''Samuel Beckett''', ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''}}
 
The absurdist movement is one of the most hilarious and depressing artistic and philosophical movements. After all the death and horror of [[World War OneI]] people started realizing that the institutions and beliefs that they put their faith in - the government, the church, the military, technology, society, etc. - were not intrinsically right. The only reason they had any power or sway is because people let them have power and sway. In short, people started to realize that the foundations they had built their life upon had no foundations themselves. This led to the modernist movement.
 
The absurdism stage is considered part of the modernist movement; while it agreed that everything was pointless (not [[Straw Nihilist|that]]), it also saw the funny side to things. We go about our lives doing the most banal, bizarre things, even though when you really got down to it there wasn't a reason for them. We do things that are, in fact, Absurd. As a result, expect to hear lots of repetitive dialogue with no real point (see page quote).
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