The Forgetting of Death
The collective push for eternal life on Earth is driving everyone insane
There’s countless examples of modern people ignoring, or denying the fact, that one day they are going to die.
Old ladies are getting new heads and old men are injecting TRT so they can feel fuckable again. But everyone knows this. And frankly, I don’t have a good reason for why they shouldn’t. Not wanting to lose your vitality is good. But there’s something much deeper going on.
Our society’s obsession with keeping people alive for the sake of it, who otherwise would have been executed, is driving people insane. The obsession with eternal life on Earth undermines the fact that Time is sacred — for those who deserve it.
This morning I saw a clip of Don Lemon pestering people on the street about how open borders are good — embarrassing himself as he does, and I thought to myself: “Not too long ago, this guy would have just been executed. He’s not supposed to be here. And everybody knows it.”
There’s way too many ‘Don Lemons’ walking around. Homeless people overdosing in front of luxurious clothing stores. Pedophiles. Violent offenders with multiple arrests. Anthony Fauci. People who give nothing, and only take away. It’s an extremely modern phenomenon that we still allow these people to exist, let alone live amongst us.
“Rehabilitating” millions of people in expensive prisons is new, and unsustainable, for historical reasons. Your ancestors and their ancestors would see public executions on a regular basis. Beheadings, public hangings. Consequences. Blood. Death in its rawest form.
Those memories exist inside of all of us. So when we see unacceptable people walking amongst us, it creates a profound yet subconscious existential confusion. Anxiety. Anger. And this confusion and powerlessness manifests in people going crazy.
So what can you do about this problem? Nothing. You don’t want to go to jail yourself. And maybe you think violence in all forms is wrong. So you’re locked in the modern paradigm of using your words and the modern solution of bitching online and hoping politicians get things under control somehow.
Why do you think choking during sex is on the rise? Because society has become so soft, dickless, and anti-human that feeling the touch of potential death is better than nothing. Anything to remember that you’re still alive.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting people start becoming violent. I’m talking about our society’s tolerance of the unacceptable, and its obsession over the concept of a “common humanity” — going way too far.
People are going insane because they’re becoming further detached from the reality of their own death. Our society pretends everyone can and should live forever, yet we all know in our bones this is not the case.
I’m quite certain that bringing back public executions would reduce societal anxiety, not increase it. And maybe that isn’t the solution. Maybe mandatory military service, or mandatory assistance in nursing homes, would bring back this critical reminder of how short our time is on Earth. The visual knowledge of how precious life is has never been more critical, because most people live their lives as if they’re functionally dead. Without death, there is no life.
