All societies are built with cognitive guardrails to prevent people from thinking clearly about mortality. It’s a first-class feature. Mythologize it, valorize it, spiritualize it, aestheticize it, but don’t let people think clearly about it.
This is stupid. We should change it.
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Which ones are you thinking off? I don’t think any cultures actually think about it. They mostly just engage it in unhealthy ways like glorifying honor suicide without genuinely examining justified euthanasia for example.
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Just a guess but I suspect this is a feature, not a bug. imo society likely wouldn't survive such introspection. Per (meaningness.com/metablog/stem-) & personal experience, seems v easy to fall into nihilism if transition isn't made carefully (perhaps even guided)
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I think such paternalism is a good thing for 10% of fragile people, but is applied to 90%
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This has got to be pretty much the biggest Chesterton's fence man
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Death is the most cutting edge environmental friendly technology we may have.
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To be clear, I don’t think there needs to be any grand conspiracy theory to maintain this. Although it’s not hard to imagine how it likely started from leaders who wanted compliance. “Glorious leader, our people are killing themselves more than usual. Should we introspect?”
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