I agree with you on the attraction of death to modern Americans. Understanding it, will liberate one from the paradigm. In his first text, grugyn' closes his book with a quotation of Titus Livius which speaks to this dying Empire of today. He wrote:
"I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds; none has been free for so many generations from the vices of avarice and luxury; nowhere have thrift and plain living been for so long held in such esteem. Indeed, poverty with us, went hand-in-hand with contentment. Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every form of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death, both individual and collective..."
"...In love with death, both individual and collective..."
"...In love with death, both individual and collective..."
We are in Love with death - and dying.