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Society is a codified hero system, a living myth that gives human life significance
Drawn from what Ernest Becker said
What Ernest Becker actually said
- Ernest Becker Cultural anthropologist (1924 to 1974) whose The Denial…
Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society everywhere is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of meaning.
Where this was said
↗The Denial of Death (Free Press, 1975 printing of the 1973 book)archive.org
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