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There's a ton of psychoanalysis praise in this book and by midway through the second chapter he's claiming animals have absolutely zero consciousness and do not fear death, the more he praises Freud the harder this is to get through

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I've been doing 14+ hour days nonstop all month and the last two weeks were especially nonstop and brutal, this is the first weekend in months that I don't have to sacrifice to working on my art show and I'm so excited to just do nothing

But rappers are constantly putting their audience down, "I am the best, I am good, you are the worst" and audiences both lift this person up fulfilling that power dynamic while also hearing the rap as if it's their internal monologue, "I am the greatest" is speaking for your ego

One thing that's fascinated me about the majority of rap music is that it's essentially an almost magical self fulfilling chant, "I have money I have cars I am the best I got shot but I didn't die" it's nearly transparent in it's denial of death and grasp for symbolic power

so how conscious are we of what we do to earn our feeling of heroism? "human heroics is a blind drivenness that burns people up; in passionate people, a screaming for glory as uncritical and reflexive as the howling of a dog."

our narcissism feeds on symbols and society is a symbolic action system, our identities can expand limitlessly to feed on these statuses and roles. Every culture has a different hero system but thats essentially what they are, mythical hero systems to help define human value.

For centuries people thought that the search for truth would cure the troubles of humanity but by the end of the 20th century, and certainly into the 21st century, we're overwhelmed with truth, choking on it, so much so that everything seems subjective

Paraphrasing but: the main thesis of this book is that the idea of death and the fear of it, is the primary motivation of human activity, activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death.

I'm listening + reading through The Denial of Death by Earnest Becker right now and its incredible, I'm going to try not to tweet the entire book, and if you're sick of seeing this hit mute on this tweet, but the whole book is a giant "truth bomb" I can't recommend it enough

I thought I had a heart attack 15 months ago, I've been thinking a lot about death and mortality, I've had a few near death experiences before but I've been almost constantly thinking about mortality since, has anyone else gone through something similar and been able to shake it?

like or hate Kobe the news coverage of this is so dark and lacking dignity, its all like: - WATCH FRIEND CRYING as he found out - watch NBA players CRYING COURTSIDE - EVERYTHING BAD he did - kid CRYING onto BASKETBALL - video of different helicopter CRASH - CELEBRITY OPINION