We are reading Ionescu's "Exit the King" or "Le Roi se meurt". It is a play of the genre of theatre of the absurd. The notion derives from existentialism with the idea the life and death have no intrinsic meaning. It occurs to me that we classify as absurd that which we don't understand. It is a form of dogmatism that seems to indicate that which is not understood by us is absurd. The meta model in science is more that understanding is a journey, a process without end and that we live in an inherently cause and effect universe. That certain phenomena are not understood simply indicates that our current models are missing some basic understanding of the structures deriving the system whose behavior we don't understand. This is particularly applied to human behavior. So a true believer can be very confused as to why everybody else doesn't believe as he or she does.
