Following Leo Alexander, Ernest Becker recognized the importance of the Nazi “philosophy of blood and soil which contained the belief that death nourishes life”. In effect, this ancient pagan belief converts death-anxiety into “thanatolatry”, a belief in “death potlatch” by means of which death is thought to mystically replenish life.

LISA: I'm an ugmo. HOMER: Now, that's not true. You're cute as a bug's ear. LISA: Fathers have to say that stuff.

Before me, careless lying, Young Love his ware comes crying Full soon the elf untreasures His pack of pains and pleasures.

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