Monday, June 8, 2015

Is our fear of dying behind nearly everything we do?

I think so.


Marc Parry has written about "Terror Management Theory", developed by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski.

"In a new book surveying that work, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (Random House), Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczyn­ski argue that fear of death drives our actions to a much greater extent than people realize. 'The terror of death has guided the development of art, religion, language, economics, and science,' they write. 'It raised the pyramids in Egypt and razed the Twin Towers in Manhattan...' "


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