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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Yes I’m familiar with that and several other similar examples of mortality salience cognition patterns. They’re always on the margins of society.
