The bee is an astoundingly beautiful animal. It lives in a perfectly organized society, controlled by one Queen. This creature labors all of its life to create honey, and then dies. This is the average bee's entire existence - to labor for twenty-odd days, and then to die. This bee, in all of its life, never even considers that what it is doing is wrong. It is blessed and cursed by a hive mind, always elevating the queen above itself. Its purpose is found in its universal, that is, its hive. Man, on the other hand, is an individual. As such, the universal (society) can not be his purpose. He cannot work for society unless he denies himself. This denial takes away mans purpose. However, over-selfness also takes away man's purpose. This leads to man finding a universal meaning in God alone, by nature of the immortality offered by God. The bee has a purpose, because it lives entirely in the present. Man- Because he lives in a future immortality. All other meaning in life is found only in inherently meaningless things. This is the absurdity of man's condition, the absurdity that the bee will never experience.
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