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Why Mourning Is Essential To Our Well-Being, With Jonathan Lear

Big Brains

CHAPTER

We Will Not Be Missed

I think they were all familiar with this kind of joke is bomb against the sting of a dark reality. In the moment you find it funny, you have to not be thinking about the terrible loss it would involve if the human race were just obliterated. Somehow there's a kind of stealthy eye that gets to escape the death sentence and sort of enjoy the justice of it from some remove. It can be a kind of stance in life. I think anyone who has been on Twitter is familiar with this stance as Lear writes in the book,. There is a form of discourse that discourages creativity and hope in addressing them.

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