The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker

Denial of death -- trying to transcend our deaths through a new tribalism, through nationalism, through ideologies that don't promote real living -- is a source of human-created evil.

This and Becker's Escape from Evil are two of the most influential books on my thinking: how is it that human beings have created a world in which we now have the potential to blow everyone to pieces? Answering that question will help lead to answers that might pull us back from that collective brink.

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