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What does it mean?
A bleak statement implying a state of spiritual or physical death in current circumstances.
In plain terms
We are already dead.
What can you take from it?
Recognize when current conditions are lifeless.

Where it applies

  • existential crisis
  • protest
  • resistance

Putting it to work

  • assess life quality
  • reject dead status
  • seek change

Questions to consider

  • What makes life feel dead?
  • How do you feel alive?

Another view

This is likely metaphorical, not literal.

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