"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever"
-Ernest Becker.
-Ernest Becker.
…. "I think I more side with the Dylan Thomas quote that says, will not go quietly into that good night, but instead rage against the dying of the light. I think that we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. I think we hold onto each other a little harder and say, I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it forever."
nice two quotes but a short life span encourages humans to quickly make choices that would otherwise be redundant if they had forever, and forever can be an ennui of choices