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When consumer culture conflicts with mortality awareness

I keep buying things I do not need and making plans I do not want because everyone around me acts like we will all live forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social pressure to accumulate and achieve creates dissonance with the knowledge that all material pursuits end in death.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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