The entire structure of everyday social reality exists to prevent people from confronting the fact that they're going to die. Literally everything. Careers, routines, small talk, productivity discourse, relationship scripts, the constant background noise of entertainment and opinion and "staying informed", it's all an enormous tranquillizing apparatus designed by the They to absorb individuals into averageness so they never have to encounter the uncanniness of their own finitude directly. People think they're living because they're permanently busy. That's the trick. Busyness functions like anesthesia. The second someone falls out of routine for too long the anxiety starts leaking through and suddenly they need therapy, self-help podcasts, political obsession, astrology, gym maxxing, anything to patch over the silence. Idle talk is probably the most underrated mechanism here because language itself becomes a kind of sedative. Everyone speaks in prefabricated interpretations and received opinions so reality never has to appear in a primordial way. You'll notice most conversations are structured specifically to prevent actual disclosure. The instant something becomes too real people start joking, moralizing, diagnosing, changing the subject, anything to restore the indifferent calm of publicness. And death itself gets flattened into a case. Somebody died. Tragic. Anyway what are you doing this weekend. "One dies" is such a perfect phrase because it transforms the most personal certainty imaginable into a vague statistic that happens to nobody in particular. Society treats genuine confrontation with death almost like a breach of etiquette. You're allowed to mention it abstractly, ceremonially, medically, but the second someone actually feels the horror of being-toward-death in a non-managed way everyone around them starts trying to reseal the crack immediately. People will spend their entire lives submerged in distraction and call this mental health.
>>18477272It will shock you, but most people don't fear death as much as you clearly do.You seem to be projecting your particular hang-up about death on to others.
>babby's first existential crisisstick with it, kiddo, you'll grow out of your teenage angst soon.
>>18477272Yes people like to do things instead of just waiting around to die. What's your point.
>>18477272I only read the first two sentences of your wall of text. I don't agree with those first two sentences, so im not going to read the rest of what you wrote.
>>18477272Which is why we ought to face death like men.
>>18477272There is literally no reason to fear death. It's entirely a nature-based emotion. Say you die from an aneurysm tomorrow, what changes?
I completely disagree most people would prefer death to an extreme change in circumstance that left them injured sickly or permanently destitute.The average person would prefer the apocalypse of everything around them instead of a radical departure from their way of life.Thanks to smartphones we are all forced to confront the reality of the ugly world we live in and people use dark humour to deal with it.
>>18477272>required reading
>>18477403This is the dumbest fucking argument.
>>18477276>atheist society is an endless hedonic treadmillsay it ain't so.
