Our Bad Luck Is That

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.

Most Young People Today Prefer Just To Move In Together And Stay Together As Long, But No Longer, As Satisfaction Lasts.

A Whole World Is Taken To The Grave With The Dead Person; Each One Of Us Is Unique And Unrepeatable.

Security Was The Demand Which Set In Motion Labour Movements In History; Trade Unions, Friendly Societies, Consumer Cooperatives Were All About Compensating For The Impotence Of Individual Resistance.

Avoid The Crowd, Avoid Mass Audiences, Keep Your Own Counsel, Which Is The Counsel Of Philosophy Of Wisdom You Can Acquire And Make Your Own.