The Denial of Death

Denial of death — trying to transcend our deaths through a new tribalism, through nationalism, through ideologies that don’t promote real living — is a source of human-created evil.

This and Becker’s Escape from Evil are two of the most influential books on my thinking: how is it that human beings have created a world in which we now have the potential to blow everyone to pieces? Answering that question will help lead to answers that might pull us back from that collective brink.