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New Blog post: Transit Now!

Posted by DeathattheMovies on Dec. 6, 2013, 2:04 p.m. 3 comments

Transit Now!   As a young, iconoclastic seeker-after-truth, one of my most admired authors was Ernest Becker. He won a Pulitzer-prize in 1974 for The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death is an innate fear which haunts us from birth.In it he quotes Sigmund Freud, “Is it not for us to confess that in our civilized attitude toward death we are once more living psychologically beyond our means, and must reform and ...