Culture: Our Shield Against Death? #shorts

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Is it merely distracting me from thinking about my death, which is, you know, that's another huge school of cultural interpretation.

[00:00:07]Um, Ernest Becker's denial of death, who argued that the primary purpose of culture is to keep us from thinking about our death. Or to help us transcend our death through these hero projects that we make.