We called one’s lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one’s whole situation… We don’t want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.

We called one’s lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one’s whole situation… We don’t want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.

– Ernest Becker –

The Denial of Death

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