Absurdism

I have been researching 20th C. '-isms' for an article. 

Perhaps most striking is 'absurdism.' 

Rationality, God and the search for meaning are thrown out. The result? A vacuum that still seems to be affecting western culture today.

See what you think.

'Absurdism had its roots int he notion that humans exist in a meaningless and ultimately irrational universe.

It contended that the search for meaning is essentially ridiculous.

The desolation of post World War I Europe provided the perfect social environment for such views to grow and the art movement known as 'Dadaism' followed closely behind.

In practical terms, the Dadaist movement translates to a hungry desire to reject the old, ultimately practical ideas and replace them with new, not necessarily functional ones. Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is an expressionistic display of the agonies of the soul, the Dadaists saw the agony and decided that it doesn't really matter.

To the challenge of "Why?" the answer was a loud, if slightly demoralized, "Why not?" If the purpose of art was to be beautiful, the Dadaists wanted to shock. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dadaism ignored aesthetics.

Absurdism had its roots in the notion that humans exist in a meaningless and ultimately irrational universe.'

Meaningless and ultimately irrational? Why then do I seem to find meaning in everything I see?