"We hardly have time to rest, let alone to plan for some grand plan that will save our souls. Luckily for us, we are not alone - everyone else is in the same boat(....) This is what we call society, as Becker perfectly put it:
"The fact is that this is what society is and always has been: a symbolic action system, a structure of statuses and roles, customs and rules for behavior, designed to serve as a vehicle for earthly heroism."
https://valentinsocial.substack.com/p/earnest-becker-on-the-denial-of-death