I think this has pretty noteworthy policy implications. Most policymakers are at least as old as this and many are much older, but only have baseline cultural attitudes towards death in order to cope.
Many of these are totally false or epistemically bad (e.g. returning to nature or living on in other’s hearts), so their mentality towards their existence ends up in a cycle of repeatedly getting broken down by truth until another house of cards of lies and justifications is built up again.
I just want to clarify that my epistemic confidence in the wording of this was low, people seem to cope quite well and only get a shakeup every 5-10 years or something. I do however think that this makes it hard to talk about with other people their age because it might shake one of them up, and of course they can’t talk about it with younger people because they wouldn’t understand and shouldn’t anyway.
Also noteworthy: Simpler people and more locally-focused people will suffer less.
I think this has pretty noteworthy policy implications. Most policymakers are at least as old as this and many are much older, but only have baseline cultural attitudes towards death in order to cope.
Many of these are totally false or epistemically bad (e.g. returning to nature or living on in other’s hearts), so their mentality towards their existence ends up in a cycle of repeatedly getting broken down by truth until another house of cards of lies and justifications is built up again.
I just want to clarify that my epistemic confidence in the wording of this was low, people seem to cope quite well and only get a shakeup every 5-10 years or something. I do however think that this makes it hard to talk about with other people their age because it might shake one of them up, and of course they can’t talk about it with younger people because they wouldn’t understand and shouldn’t anyway.
Also noteworthy: Simpler people and more locally-focused people will suffer less.