> (Some Things We Do) I think that self-sacrifice is a mechanism to guard against uncertainty. Sacrifice is easy to construe as a one-sided guarantee of being remembered. There's a video I recently watched on this topic. In a blurb, people face their mortality by putting considerable effort towards cultural projects through which their memory may live on. That may be a book, a collection of shells, or a sacrifice.
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kaa
4 months ago
People don't know if their projects will be remembered, but they really hope they do, because they're going to die anyways. It's easy to wish for a loss in agency to gain some certainty.
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murumart
4 months ago
I didn't expect this from a Squarepusher track. I guess I ought to listen to Dostrotime
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Didnt all the homos fuck each other and it resulted in humans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo#Homo_erectus