Entropy is perhaps the greatest existential bummer. How should we respond to the fact that everything and everyone will eventually be taken away from us?
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever”
-Ernest Becker.
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Also read: The Deepest Truth of Human Existence by Eckhart Tolle
