Mencken said, "to lack a remedy is to lack the very license to discuss the disease".
As he also said, " it is one of the peculiar intellectual accompaniments of democracy that the concept of the insoluble becomes unfashionable....".
It doesn't require much imagination to see that Christianity and Islam derive much of their vigor from having an answer to the question "what happens when we die?", while Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, more circumspect, leaves the questioner dangling.
America loves a prescriptive philosophy.


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