Many young people pass their time in a fantasy world of drugs, music and sex. Man is an empty bubble floating on a sea of nothingness. Not only do the existentialists have to create a set of values to live by, but first of all, they have to create optimism out of a view of absurdity and despair. It is called an ethic of ambiguity because each person has no one to answer to but himself. There is no one else to blame, each individual is without excuse.
Life is merely a game to be won or lost, to seek to become one's own hero.
The existentialist wills himself to be free and in so doing wills himself to be moral. Many have forgotten what it means to live, to be fully human. Hours are spent in front of the TV, in a world of fantasy and escapism. Many people are becoming devoid of human warmth and significant human interaction. To fully understand ethics one must have considerable clarity about what it is to be human.