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.
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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Death cults are obsessed with mortality
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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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