Civilization begins with the creation of massive, monumental structures requiring the expenditure of vast resources—in the name of a project that serves no practical purpose. Devoted to the proposition that the King would live eternally in his second life, the pyramids had no biological or evolutionary significance.
Human beings became human in flight from their animal nature—as they enacted a gigantic fantasy. This fantasy—the central human fantasy—is that some animals do not entirely die, but live forever.>
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