The Afterlife Industrial Complex: What David Eagleman's Tales Tell Us About Our Desperate Need for Meaning

Send us Fan Mail see related Substack episode We're living through the death of certainty, and it's making us absolutely feral for answers about what comes next. I spent an hour this week diving into David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, and honestly? It left me more unsettled than any horror movie could. Not because these afterlife scenarios are terrifying—though some are—but because they hold up a mirror to how desperately we cling to the illusion that someone, somewhere, h...