According to Ernest Becker, it is this transcendental impulse which leads to the rise and fall of civilizations. He argued, in the 1974 classic, The Denial of Death, that a basic human drive is the denial that we are going to die. He sees religion, art, science, war, and politics—even civilization itself—all as “immortality projects”, ways of trying to transcend death.

“My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

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