![]() ![]() ![]() In the early 1980’s, my colleagues and I ( Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and myself) read Ernest Becker’s The Birth and Death of Meaning (1971) and The Denial of Death (1973), which inspired the development of terror management theory. Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (1999) There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.” In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time-or even knew selflessness or courage or literature-but that it is too late for us. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. ![]() “There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. ![]()
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