garfield*totally know what im talking about voice* people in pre capitalist societies were not obsessed with death
don't get me wrong, im sure there are and/or have been cultures in which death did not occupy the very centre of spiritual and social life. i just cant think of a single one right now
I cannot imagine a more quintessentially western late capitalist belief, than the idea that it is unhealthy to think about death
Never in western culture has mourning been stigmatised, or grief been pathologised, like they currently are today. Sovereignty is asserted through killing, but this is no longer carried out as a spectacle. Instead, death is occluded. People who should be killed have been replaced by lives that are expendable. Hence why there has been no grieving, or indeed no real acknowledgement, of those who have died of covid. The overwhelming capitalist pressure is to ignore death completely
anyway. "people didn't use to care about death so much" is an absolutely clown shoes statement. just the symmetric opposite of what is the case
the lexi raptor@garfiald the pyramids were built for shits and giggles, or to demonstrate geometric principles on vast scale, obviously not as tombs