Misanthropic psychosis

There is a concept being constructed which may explain why “the masses” cannot be roused from their eternal and stupifying sleepwalk towards oblivion, and the suggestions that the concept bring are incredibly important for those in the Anti-Tech world. Terror Management Theory has been an evolving school of thought that has put numbers and data to the idea that we as human beings do not like mortality and will do many things to avoid thinking about this inevitable tidbit. The basic premise is this: Humans who are at risk of danger or injury experience fear at a scale where the fear is equal to the risk present, ideally this would galvanize action or survival mechanisms with corresponding relevance; a high risk will trigger a major response. Putting aside for now the variances in human reactions to levels of objective risk, it is known that evolution would discourage totally fearless behavior, as a man walking without any fear or care in the world would likely die to something horribly stupid and obviously dangerous. Fear helps us survive. We run into a problem, however. If fear is to be married to the scale, scope, danger, and presence of the danger, what to do for Death? Death is after all an ever present, ensured, complete, total, inexorable, inescapable and inevitable risk. How are we not all insane? Shouldn’t we be in full panic at all times, to match the scale and risk of the inevitable? The answer has been named as Terror Management Theory. When existential risks are exposed, human beings tend to focus and empower things that seemingly overcome even death. Culture, religion, national identity, even as small a detail as local views on political happenings. During extreme times of existential stress we see populations heavily centralize around higher conceptual ideas of identity, rather than the life and identity of the individual. If the body is to die, pass on the mind. Populations in crisis become ‘extreme’ in their ideals, be it religion/nationality… Read in full →