Escaping precariousness compels one to loathe reminders of shared mortal fragility.

Evidence

To the extent that we succeed in leveraging ourselves out of total liquidation, building up a life of prosperity and (the illusion of) security, we are compelled to close ourselves off to the face of the other, to the image of existential suffering. In fact, we come to loathe it, loathe the way it calls us back into a fellow precarious human body from the privilege of forgetting our precariousness. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 225

Categorization

• XREF: The privilege of forgetting connects to the reader’s tracked theme of silence-as-privilege and to Parable of the Sower’s fugitive perspective on settled security. — connects to: Stoic apathy lets the privileged steel themselves against others’ suffering — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 83; Contemplating one’s death reveals oneself as the future prey of others.; People cling to hatred to postpone confronting underlying pain — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 152 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Recognition of precariousness can evoke both horror and calm. #expands (0.80) — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 219
• Stoic apathy lets the privileged steel themselves against others’ suffering #qualifies (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 83
• Contemplating one’s death reveals oneself as the future prey of others. #expands (0.75)
• Subtle death reminders drive worldview defense, self-esteem striving, and unhealthy behavior. #contradicts (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 763
• People cling to hatred to postpone confronting underlying pain #complicates (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 152