Excerpt: ″this supremacy of finitude – this circumambience of grander mortalities than our own – is, in fact, galvanising. Just like the child coming to accept her ‘first death’, apprehending this might simply be part of growing up.
Ultimately, eternity intoxicates and stultifies, whereas finitude edifies by showing us that our decisions – right now – do matter. If immortality’s price is agency’s liquidation, I’d choose agency every time.″
Source: aeon.co
Source: aeon.co