Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies.
ADAM GOLLNERWe wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we’ve been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
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Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another.
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This is a comment on fear. Today it’s like ‘They’re going to bomb the New York subway and there’s the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.’
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After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.
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The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels.
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They think they’ll find another way. I’m not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.
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We’ve also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying.
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Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error.
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No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.
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We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we’ve been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
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If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such.
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Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act.
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Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.
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The term “cultural-universal” is a complicated one, but I’ve heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.
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