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19: How Our Mortality Drives Our Lives: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Made You Think

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Is Your Immortality Attacking You?

People who react emotionally to something don't have a meaning in their life that is personal. So they find an ideology to latch onto and then pour their emotional energy into that. And then any attack on that ideology becomes an attack on them personally. It's like, okay, you know, we always pick on SJW. So we're going to do it here too.

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