Thank you for the recommendation of The Denial of Death. I had not previously heard of it and it has moved right to the top of my list of books to read (after I finish the Vernor Vimge I'm on).
When I've had long-range art projects that I'm working on they have certainly functioned as psychiatric armor -- and I have referred to them with this term before. Career can be the same. Bitcoin probably is playing this role for a number of people right now.
Living in constant terror sounds bad. Religion certainly palliates it. But I don't think i like the idea that I'm just trying to distract myself from it any more than I like the idea that I'm pretending there is something after it.
I really liked this Mike Tyson interview. Especially the part about legacy (starting at ~2:20 - but, really, the whole interview is pretty good):
Thank you for the recommendation of The Denial of Death. I had not previously heard of it and it has moved right to the top of my list of books to read (after I finish the Vernor Vimge I'm on).
When I've had long-range art projects that I'm working on they have certainly functioned as psychiatric armor -- and I have referred to them with this term before. Career can be the same. Bitcoin probably is playing this role for a number of people right now.
Living in constant terror sounds bad. Religion certainly palliates it. But I don't think i like the idea that I'm just trying to distract myself from it any more than I like the idea that I'm pretending there is something after it.
I really liked this Mike Tyson interview. Especially the part about legacy (starting at ~2:20 - but, really, the whole interview is pretty good):