The "Are ya winning, son?" dad meme meets the eternal struggle of Sisyphus. Dad walks in to check on his son, but instead of a video game — it’s the endless boulder.
"Are ya winning, son?"
Sisyphus, condemned by Zeus to push a massive rock up a hill for all eternity, only to have it roll back down each time he nears the top. Albert Camus called this the perfect metaphor for the human condition and concluded: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Dad doesn’t know about existential philosophy. Dad just wants to know if his boy is winning.
Gorgocutie says: Sisyphus was literally doing the same task forever and some dad still had to walk in and ask if he was winning. The audacity. Also, Camus would probably appreciate that the dad’s casual check-in is the most absurdist thing in this entire image — finding meaning in caring about your son’s boulder-pushing progress.
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