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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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%

