The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusion, the intention of which is to make us forget that all the time we are falling through the air, at every moment getting closer to death.
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes: &, Desert Divers
civilisation, death, philosophy, society