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>Even in the modern Western world, where it used to dominate, it is now disappearing fast. One observation that has been made many times is rather than the aft
by Barrin92 5y ago
>Even in the modern Western world, where it used to dominate, it is now disappearing fast.
One observation that has been made many times is rather than the afterlife (with its characteristics of rendering judgement onto the unjust and so forth) disappearing, particular in the 20th century, it has been translated into a variety of secular ideologies.
If you want to find fantasies about eschatology, eternal life, resurrection of the dead and so on you only need to talk about atheist silicon valley engineers about the singularity.
- bambax 5y agoBut if it was part of how the human brain operates it would concern everybody, not just a couple of tech self-proclaimed luminaries who hope to somehow "not die".
- Barrin92 5y agoI think it is deeply engrained in culture. I mean you just need to look at pop culture. I don't think there was ever an age with more disaster / last day type movies or books than right now. Environmental politics (which I support, not to get me wrong) often has the same kind of cataclysmic fears projected on it. There's now services to immortalize your social media presence after you're dead and so on, pretty much mirroring religious ritual. I think there is genuinely few people who have a truly indifferent attitude towards death or last questions, for most it's just been transformed into something that looks superficially non-religious.