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mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Something fundamental in our culture has ended. What exactly, I can’t quite put my finger on. As many things in the liminal, it’s hard to grasp. But if we want to birth something new out of it, we have to come to terms with endings. We have to come to terms with the ultimate ending, the very thing Covid-19 forces us to look at: our inevitable death... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
- Death is the human physical machine failing
- There is no law of nature that says the machine must fail
- Tim Urban is excited for the time when the person can decide when their machine fails
- He thinks that people will look back on death, as it happens today, as barbaric
- The ultimate achievement is humans dying when they are read
Tim Urban • #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast
“I suggest that the death drive has something to do with it,” the piece reads. “Our aesthetic and behavior are certainly shaped by a sense of doom. There’s a nihilism to the way people dress and party; our heels get higher the closer we inch to death. It’s why people are smoking again, so says the New York Times.”
rayne fisher-quann • The cult of the dissociative pout
Many older individuals feel a greater sense of freedom with age, inviting them to chase their truest selves, and leave the unimportant angst behind. In a culture where angst seems to prevail, and young people face uncertain futures, aging with joy is a radical act of humanity. And the conversation is changing to reflect this.