Ive been learning about anthropology with a fixation on the shift to the agricultural revolution one of the few transitions Ive noticed was the attitude towards death.
Pre-agricultural cultures (like hunter gatherers) did not have this fixation with immortality as did societies with a more consolidated power structure. They were not numb to death like how depressive dread numbs you (depression/suicide are very rare in those environments) but they still come to accept it when the time came. They died more GRACEFULLY in attitude than modern notions of death. Alot of it is due to cultural perceptions but some of it definitely due to more people reaching basic milestones in their personal life like wholesome community, geographic heritage and sex. They accomplish so much more in less time.
This can be seen in various collective perception (culture and primitive mythology) and even individualistic experiences. Why is this existential anxiety more common in more technologically advanced cultures?
In the agricultural based societies/religions our lives are filled with much more anxious rat races with an obsession with time and this UNSHAKEABLE FEAR of death. Despite this exaggerated fear of death many men dont actually have a wholesome life to justify such a fear of death, the only thing driving them is their ability to buy more time (by keeping their body alive with technology but not necessarily attaining a good health.)
Despite modern societies having so much wealth and production it is contradicted by its IMMENSE social and common male sexual poverty that people (mostly men) fantasize about immortality as a means of SLOWLY acquiring their most basic needs. The more we progress and more we populate, the higher the sexual demands of women become, with an increase in the discussion of more ways to immortalize one's self (even silly things like uploading your mind to the cloud.) This will only accelerate.
Transhumanist immortality projects are usually the copes of many aspies for these reasons. You almost never see women concerning themselves with this because their genetic immortality is almost guaranteed due to always having a suitor.
It should be ok to die.
Pre-agricultural cultures (like hunter gatherers) did not have this fixation with immortality as did societies with a more consolidated power structure. They were not numb to death like how depressive dread numbs you (depression/suicide are very rare in those environments) but they still come to accept it when the time came. They died more GRACEFULLY in attitude than modern notions of death. Alot of it is due to cultural perceptions but some of it definitely due to more people reaching basic milestones in their personal life like wholesome community, geographic heritage and sex. They accomplish so much more in less time.
This can be seen in various collective perception (culture and primitive mythology) and even individualistic experiences. Why is this existential anxiety more common in more technologically advanced cultures?
In the agricultural based societies/religions our lives are filled with much more anxious rat races with an obsession with time and this UNSHAKEABLE FEAR of death. Despite this exaggerated fear of death many men dont actually have a wholesome life to justify such a fear of death, the only thing driving them is their ability to buy more time (by keeping their body alive with technology but not necessarily attaining a good health.)
Despite modern societies having so much wealth and production it is contradicted by its IMMENSE social and common male sexual poverty that people (mostly men) fantasize about immortality as a means of SLOWLY acquiring their most basic needs. The more we progress and more we populate, the higher the sexual demands of women become, with an increase in the discussion of more ways to immortalize one's self (even silly things like uploading your mind to the cloud.) This will only accelerate.
Transhumanist immortality projects are usually the copes of many aspies for these reasons. You almost never see women concerning themselves with this because their genetic immortality is almost guaranteed due to always having a suitor.
It should be ok to die.
