Affluence and technology allow Americans to avoid facing death
Evidence
Americans are particularly prone to simply avoiding thinking about death and dealing with the dying, and our affluence and technology make it easier for us to keep intimations of mortality at bay. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 794
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the noise-avoidance and distraction themes from the soundscape books — here applied to death avoidance.
Related
- No account of human behavior is complete without the awareness of death (similarity 0.81)
- Knowing how death awareness drives defenses enables more self-determined choices (similarity 0.81)
- People are generally oblivious to death yet it shapes their experience (similarity 0.80)
- Death’s most powerful influence operates unseen in normal life (similarity 0.80)
- Without proximal defenses people would be perpetually panicking about death (similarity 0.79)
- Adults respond to death reminders with mundane distraction and consumption (similarity 0.79)
- Death-terror drives art, religion, war, consumerism, and fame-seeking (similarity 0.78)