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# Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/14782/
- Published: 2010-07-31T07:20:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-25T11:35:44.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, #wpChunk, Kuehnelt-Leddihn

![Menace of the Herd](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Menace-of-the-Herd.jpg "Menace of the Herd")

Piety and Death

*"It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious."*

Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to fear death, and then I had children. I then came to fear death . . . for their sake. Of course. And I came to obsess about money . . . for their sake. Of course. And I came to watch more TV and movies . . . for their sake. Of course.

The exigency of raising a family forces a youth to abandon his idealism, but I have little doubt that it brings its own dulling and danger. Parenthood causes one to put aside self-centeredness, but that self-centeredness sneaks back into the soul somehow and, once it sneaks back in, it doesn't even have the idealism to cushion it.