The erosion of shared culture – religion, ritual, myth – has left the modern subject increasingly alone with their mortality. In the absence of shared symbolic containers, death anxiety becomes unmediated. Without cultural meaning systems to metabolise death anxiety, we see a rise in pseudo-substitutes: performative identity, health obsession, productivity as virtue. These offer no real containment – just distraction.
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