Society is designed around fear of death. It is meant to insulate us from its reality, its violence, its ugliness, its inevitability.
We live in 'communities.' The idea might have been noble at one time but now it simply means a place where people work the same jobs, buy from the same stores and call the same police when cars are broken into.
These comm…
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