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Everything that humanity has ever accomplished beyond basic survival has been motivated by a fundamental and irreducible fear of non-existence. Our conception of self and self-esteem generally is simply a buffer against the anxiety that comes with recognizing that we will cease to be. Culture is just a massive shared delusion to mitigate our fear of the unknown and ultimately of death. Thus we want to imagine certain works of art as timeless or to place value in family lines and offspring, to project ourselves beyond death. We take comfort in our value systems and the structures that arise from them, whether that's through conceptions of biological kinship, national/ political identity, religious faith, etc. This includes belief in the inherent value of ensuring the future of humanity through scientific progress. Indeed much of modern western life is devoted to the avoidance of death, the various euphemisms and stock phrases in mourning, the entire funeral home industry that serves to remove death from the ordinary course of life, from the home and onto the embalming table or into the crematorium. We build up the artifice to avoid the brutal reality.

TL;DR: Everything that we've ever done and will ever do is motivated by nothing more than our existential terror in confronting death.

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[(Anonymous)]

okei

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[(Anonymous)]

culture may be a shared delusion, but it's a shared delusion that led to the creation of heavy metal albums and cheeseburgers, so i can't say that i'm too upset about it.

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[(Anonymous)]

rolls toga up over knees and sits down with gonads out

Tell me more

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm a dork who firmly believes in life after death so this kind of stuff doesn't really bother me

like, even if i'm wrong, i'm gonna live my life not being afraid of it. i might not be aware i lived a paranoid, needlessly anxious life when i'm dead, but it's pretty easy to just believe otherwise and have a much more pleasant experience!

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[(Anonymous)]

That terror can be used for comfort. Boss just fired you because it's better business alternative than giving you a raise? A creep is touching your butt? At least three infants are screaming their lungs out wherever you go?

They all are going to die.