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Humanity's awareness of mortality drives both creativity and delusion
  • Motivates art, children, and legacy-building
  • Powerful elites increasingly obsessed with immortality
  • Putin/Xi caught discussing life extension privately
  • Technological promises replace religious afterlife beliefs
Yuval Noah HarariPeople by WTF00:56:55

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A couple of months ago, they caught Putin and Xi in Beijing talking privately... And what were Putin and Xi talking about in private? They didn't talk about Ukraine. They didn't talk about Gaza. They talked about living forever. Yuval Noah Harari
We are in constant denial mode. We try to forget that we are going to die, but deep down, we know it. And we say, okay, we'll have kids, and it's through the children we'll continue to live. Yuval Noah Harari

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The Mortality Paradox

Harari observes how humanity's awareness of mortality drives both achievement and delusion, from artistic creation to modern elites' obsession with life extension technologies.

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