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About Dr. Ernest Becker
ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN is based on the ideas of best-selling author and Pulitzer-Prize-winning cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker
Best known for his 1973 book THE DENIAL OF DEATH, Becker devoted his entire intellectual career to answer the question, “Why do people do what they do?”
Becker’s ultimate conclusion – one informed by readings across anthropology, sociology, psychology and theology – was simple:
People do what they do unknowingly and do so to avoid confronting the truth – namely, that they are mortal animals destined to die.
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