External locus of control is the key idea there and can change some peoples self image. It's such an important concept. The view I have is about strategies to navigate dmeoralized environments without personalizing them, and while being able to appreciate the local pools of relative goodness when they occur.

On absurdism, part of the beauty of the show Rick and Morty is they travel to different universes that seem physically ridiculous, but there is a fairly constant moral theme in each of them that maps to a plausible human interaction that is just insane enough to be funny because each one is the expression of an human incentive iterated over time that forms a culture. It's a lot like consulting.