Today, it’s a challenge to avoid being bombarded with news stories and images that affirm our mortality, in Technicolor and very large numbers. So, of course we’re freaked out. And of course we cope by distracting ourselves through rat-racing, shopping, and trying to leave our marks through accomplishments, including children and books like this one. And of course society isn’t complaining, because our productive distraction is the machine that makes society function. And of course religion has irresistible appeal, because it readily accounts for all the chaos without demanding much
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