📚 1 Books mentioned in "Matt Walsh: America-First, Douglas Murray, Transgenderism, and What It Really Means to Be a Man" of The Tucker Carlson Show

I mean I read a book there's this um there was a book that was written years ago called Denial of Death. You ever read that? And I'm blanking on the name of the guy who wrote it. It'll come to me. But anyway, the book is called Denial of Death. I don't agree with it's kind of psych psychoan analytical. There's a lot of psycho babble in it. Uh it was written by an author who ironically wrote this book, published it, won I believe a Pulitzer and died and uh died of of cancer. I think he didn't know that he had it when he wrote this book, but then he published the book and he died. But anyway, his his his kind of theory was that like all of modern society is actually fundamentally set up to distract us from the fact that we're going to die. Of course, that terror of death is what drives everything. Um, and he takes that farther than I would probably take it, but I think there's actually a lot of truth to And I remember I read this book and I and I uh and I and I and I could see a lot of that in my own in my own life, of course. But then I I I discovered that that once I once I started actually thinking about that and meditating on it, maybe not literally meditating, but really thinking about it, uh I did become h I became less fearful somehow of it.

Matt Walsh mentions reading this book and discusses its central theory about the terror of death and how it affected him personally. He notes the author won a Pulitzer and died of cancer shortly after publishing, but does not name the author.

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