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Denial of Death

30 Oct 2021 - 27 Apr 2025
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    • NextPKM this business of having to hand-hone all possible aliases for a page (topic) is soooo dumb and antique-feeling.
    • Famous book by Ernest Becker Privste until my attention span improves
    • Lots of praise for Rank, who I have never read. Also based a lot on Norman O. Brown
    • Ch 1
      • Kind of dumb dismissal of Buddhism, but oh well.
      • Pretty clear argument for death being basic – because anxiety is. Avoiding death is one of the prime evolved goals (not his language) so duh.