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Toward A New Story, Vol 1: In Response To The Meta Crisis W/ Marc Gafni PHD #390

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The Death Star Is a Shocking Reality

The first shock of existence is when human beings realize they're going to die But not like an animal does it's the realization Of the existential fact of death. Then we go through all of culture and all of its structure stages of development And then holy shit we hit this and I want to call it the second shock of existence The experience of death presses me to Enthro ontologically not to contrive meaning as the postmodernists say but actually enthrontologically go inside evolving Structures of meaning that's a big fucking deal. We don't turn away, we look in Right we face in Right brave heart Right hold hold don't don't engage in a global action paralysis. Let's

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