/lit/ - Literature

>>16749060
I haven't read it, can you give a quick summary of how the book responds to >>16749314 ?
I tend to agree with that anon and would say that >>16750496 can be done only in small scale human dynamics. The optimal human community would be in a commune of a few thousand where you have the freedom to do what you want (within the bounds of everyone's well being) while also having all of our modern technologies. This seems impossible as liberalism, technologies, and population are all tied together.
>>16751830
You are naive but can't be blamed. People have no clue how amazing modern medicine is until their family member has a stroke or gets cancer and they realize what actually matters in life.

>>16139349
Most if not all living things have a fear of death encoded in the body part of the mind-body duality. It's a consequence of them being alive. Your parents and their parents and so on down the line were good at not dying and reproducing, passing that imperative onto their offspring. Darwinian principles are a consequence of huge amounts of time and sex. It's rare that millions of years of lived experience (if you want to call it that) is overcome. Unless you are Buddhist monk trying to self-immolate, this will always be a part of you.
The mind-side fear is a linguistic/conscious by-product in humans. I feel you, when I was younger I used to sit up at night feeling sick to my stomach because I hated the idea of all of this going away, but your dog doesn't do that, trees don't do that. I still hate that feeling, but I learned to not let the fear control me (that specific fear at least). You can't let an inevitability control your life, especially when you don't know what that inevitability is.
I think there is always an underlying something with a strong conscious fear of death: narcissism, fear of pain, lack of fulfillment or fear of missing out. Philosophy books and Buddhist teachings may help you, but you should also go talk to someone about it. You can't let fear ruining your fucking life man, no matter if it's one life or the pre-life or the eternal life that you will live again and again. A therapist can help, but you also need friends and family that you can tell about this stuff. Writing your thoughts down in a diary also helps, it can make serious and depressing thoughts seem comedic and trivial. I hope you figure it out

>>12708153
HOW ROMANTIC! Deep Feels very nice very very deep feels NICE!