The other DrC came back from a meeting talking about the acronym YOLO, standing for "you only live once." I replied that I knew that one, although I find I've not yet used it here at COTTonLINE.
This started me thinking about the current popularity of YOLO when texting and in email. Is there an explicit (or implicit) agnosticism in saying you only live once? One could certainly make a case for that view.
Unless and until I hear a convincing counterargument, I will see in YOLO the notion that when you're dead you're dead, and the consciousness that is you is no more. This view appears to be growing more prevalent in Western society, particularly among largely post-Christian Europeans.
