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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Sure, obsession is the opposite of thinking clearly about it. That’s one of the negative avoidance patterns I mentioned, a mix of mythologization and valorization.
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