rossbates on Nostr: I thought, no way this is not something people have studied in depth, so I went and ...
I thought, no way this is not something people have studied in depth, so I went and consulted the Moloch…
"The specific mechanism you're describing - transferring individual mortality anxiety to group mortality - is sometimes called "death displacement" in the literature. It's the idea that it's psychologically easier to contemplate everyone dying together than to face the reality of your own isolated death.”
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