The Denial of Death in Technological Culturalism: The Drive To Be A Modern Hero
The Denial of Death in Technological Culturalism: The Drive To Be A Modern Hero

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks into the works of anthropologist ErnestBecker, sociologist Jacques Ellul, and the field of terror management theoryto understand how technological culture has developed from man’s fear ofdeath. It should be seen that the fear of death along with the obsession withtechnological efficiency leads to a world wherein most of people’s drivesare geared toward reaching an immortal state of being, either symbolicallyor materially. From this understanding we can then see how problems mayarise in a technology world, of which I propose four.

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