By Dr. Adnan Bouzan

Man, in his essence, is that persistent rebellion against everything imposed upon him from the outside, against every structure that has constrained him or attempted to confine him within the limits of a fixed concept. He is the being who refuses to be classified or contained; every attempt to place him within a predefined framework—whether religious, philosophical, or social—collides with the internal barrier of rejection of this being, which is originally an open entity that cannot be closed.

This infinite openness, or more precisely, the “non-belonging” to any essence or final identity, is what makes man the center of creative absurdity; absurdity that does not mean meaninglessness or futility, but rather the creation of new meaning at every moment—meanings that neither stabilize nor repeat.
Here lies the essence of freedom: it is not the freedom to choose among ready-made options, but the freedom to invent new choices, to reshape your self and your existential horizon in the face of the void of meaninglessness.

Let us take an example from Sartre’s philosophy, who described man as "condemned to be free," not because he is free in everything, but because he is responsible for creating himself in a world without a creator or a teacher preceding his existence. Man, confronted with this existential void—which is void itself—can only escape it through rebellion against nihilism by means of creation.
But this rebellion is not easy; it is always accompanied by “existential anxiety” or “alienation,” as Heidegger expressed it, that feeling of estrangement from the world and from oneself, because man realizes that he cannot find himself in anything fixed, nor can he hide in a defined identity or rigid social role.

Thus, man becomes "the restless obsession," reshaping the world and the self simultaneously. He is like the wind that refuses stagnation, stirring sands and clouds, carrying new seeds of life amidst ruin. This tension between formation and dissolution, between construction and destruction, is what makes human existence a unique phenomenon unlike any other.

Within this framework, the classical existential question “Who am I?” transforms into a more complex inquiry:
How can I persist in being, without imprisoning myself in a mold, and without relinquishing my freedom to reinvent myself anew?
How can I embrace the void—that non-place—as a space for creation, not as a place of loss?

This is the “final rebellion against meaninglessness”; a rebellion inseparable from man’s incapacity to find a definitive answer, yet it merges with this incapacity as a condition for freedom and creation. Man, therefore, does not seek salvation, but a continuous moment of creation that refuses stillness, and a meaning that is not imposed but experienced—a meaning emerging from the chaos and the abyss of meaninglessness.

In our contemporary era, where grand narratives collapse and certainties fragment, this creative rebellion becomes the only path to a truly human existence—true in the sense of continual creation—not merely as the author of his biography but as a dancer upon the threshold of meaninglessness, to the rhythm of chaos’s pulse and its mysterious beauty.