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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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Elon Musk Is the Perfect Example of This

We fetishize these transference objects to satisfy our really highest yearnings and strivings. They give us some of that satisfaction of accomplishment just by having this thing we are obsessed with. Elon Musk is the perfect example of this. It's like there's so much deification of him, especially in the tech community. So it makes me feel weird to criticize him. But yeah, we sort of need to create this value. We have to infuse our life with value in order to call it good.

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