Thursday, August 3, 2006

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Immortalitas II - The fear of death

Two things are sure, Frederic Beigbeder notes in his novel The Romantic Egoist "fixed" The Death of the Earth and your own. He raises the question of whose death should come first. The death of the earth is preferable, because it would end out the same thing. First, there is not a danger to me something that is to miss the future. With the death of the earth to die also with all the other people at the same time. It escapes the solitude, the lonely death. Those are the two reasons why all the generals and warmongering of the story really worked toward the apocalypse, the death of the earth: The fear of missing a lonely death and the fear of the future. That is selfish, there Beigbeder and his alter ego, Oscar Dufresne, but who was now looking for an egoist, not for a good death. That this was the inevitable end is already clear.

This is a very cynical view of the world, but it corresponds to that of our most enlightened contemporaries.

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