
Death and Terror Management Theory with Sheldon Solomon
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The Only Saviour of the Human Race
Atchley elly: John gray has destroyed a lot of things that we rely on, such as progress and the notion of salvation. But he's also still stuck in that same like, o well, where do we go? Ye, and of course, that's, i think that's reasonable. He reviewed our book, the worm at the core for british newspapers. This is the most compelling empirical demonstration of the veracity of becker's claims that death anxiety underlies the substantial proportion of human activity. And then he just literally tears us apart, because he's like, ok, these guys do a good job of showing how much death anxiety influences everything that people do
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