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06: Unheimlich Maneuver: The Uncanny, Part I

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Uncanny and Chaos of Speaking of the Dead

The idea of the taboo. You sometimes hear after someone dies, where you should not speak a little bit dead. Think about like Rush Limbaugh dies. And I'm like, well, yeah. I hope he enjoys hell, you say that on Twitter. But as a collective social norming, it is a, the majority tendency in our culture is to stigmatize speaking of the dead.

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