Graydon on Nostr: Sincere religious belief produces awe. There's precious little of that going around; ...
Sincere religious belief produces awe.
There's precious little of that going around; there's a lot of the forms and very little of the substance.
In consequence, most people are not dealing with their fear of death very well. This is not an age in which you can bid a dying friend "until we meet again"; it will land as terrible cruel sarcasm.
As a result, nutcase immortality ideas are on a major upswing, and these interact with "status is never being told what to do" to produce "vaccines bad".
There's precious little of that going around; there's a lot of the forms and very little of the substance.
In consequence, most people are not dealing with their fear of death very well. This is not an age in which you can bid a dying friend "until we meet again"; it will land as terrible cruel sarcasm.
As a result, nutcase immortality ideas are on a major upswing, and these interact with "status is never being told what to do" to produce "vaccines bad".