31 | Death and our immortality systems

Everyone of us, perhaps unconsciously, is probably trying to buy into or build or trust some kind of immortality system, although we do this in different ways. For some of us, success is the immortality system; for others, it’s a legacy; and for others, especially evangelicals, it’s the promise of eternal life. For most of us, our ideological constructs are immortality systems. What's going on here? Drawing from a few books — Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death," Richard Beck's "The Slavery of Death" and Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski's "The Worm at the Core" — this podcast focuses on the central problem in any critique of ideology: the problem of our enslavement to death. If you like, you can support the Unorthodoxy podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4508571