ABSURD WORLD ABYESS : MASTER SNIPPET ESSAY

FARCICAL ONLINE humour has become an escapist tool in an age of nuclear threats, political circuses and collective bewilderment.

The content creator Maray Bhai 100 (@maraybhai100) uploads reels that resemble no other in the prolific world of Pakistani memes.

Pakistani memes, like their Indian cousins, are brilliant nuggets of self-reflective humour, and reached their true genius during the recent skirmish between India and Pakistan.

Maray Bhai’s reels have more in common with the existential Theatre of the Absurd than the usual amusing reels.

They are off the wall, pure chaos beginning in a calm pseudo-scientific tone, using Google Maps and the Solar Smash App, as if about to offer a solution to regional crises.

They soon derail into an existential distraction, as the lines he draws over centuries turn into doodles of animals or people. Behind the levity there is the shadow of real regional issues, and the existential threat of war and nuclear annihilation.

'' The Theatre of the Absurd '' describes plays written in the aftermath of WWII that reflected a chaotic and illogical world, where one accepts, with sarcastic laughter, a world without purpose and without meaning.

Its precursor Dada Art, emerged from the despair of World War I, also depicting an absurd nonsensical world of chance, randomness and illogic.

Earlier still, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland pseudo-logic presented as rigid whimsical rules, leads only to chaos and confusion.

The world is waiting in a T.S. Eliot wasteland, choosing whether to part one's hair in the middle or on one side.

Today's memes, described by novelist Patricia Lockwood as a kind of ''communal mind'' has given authorship to anyone and everyone - to react to, or learn to live with, the new absurdity and meaninglessness of life.

She speaks of the addiction to scrolling through memes, in the hope that one will bring an '' infrastructure coherence '' to the chaos, and reassurance that we are not alone in the bewilderment.

This Master Essay Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks artist Durriya Kazi.