Sometimes there are situations when no one appreciated your work, and it turned out to be absolutely useless. It’s more offensive when you realize the significance of the result of your activity, and the society or higher figures do not want to look at things from your point of view. Sisyphus labor is incomplete and therefore practically useless.
Sisyphus is a character in ancient Greek mythology. According to legend, he angered the gods, and had to roll a huge stone to the top of the mountain. It cost the hero considerable efforts, however, as soon as the stone was almost in the right place, it rolled back down, and Sisyphus had to push him to the top over and over again.
Why was the hero so cruelly punished? The most common version is the one in which Sisyphus deceived the death god Thanatos and held him captive. People stopped dying, which attracted the attention of the entire Underground Kingdom. All this lasted for several years, after which Hades freed the god of death. The latter immediately after liberation took the soul of Sisyphus and led her to the Kingdom of shadows.
However, the quick-witted hero warned his wife Merope not to conduct any funeral rites. Hades and Persephone allowed Sisyphus to ascend to Earth and punish his wife for neglecting the sacred traditions. But the happy Sisyphus, the first to return from the Kingdom of the shadows alive, began to feast in his palace. When his absence was discovered, the gods sent for the deceiver Hermes and condemned him to the eternal erection of a stone on top of the mountain.
In relation to the modern realities of Sisyphus, labor is a potentially useful activity, the results of which cannot be realized in an existing society at this stage of its development. It turns out that the efforts made to carry out activities are completely fruitless, and the work itself is endless.
A person takes such a curse on himself, because no society, other than punitive, condones unhelpful labor. When a person begins to realize the complexity of the situation, he has two options: either quit all the work done, or die without achieving anything.
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