Curing aging is an inevitable development of the industrial revolution
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2024 4:47 pm
Time, space, matter, all dimensions of scarcity.
Automation frees people from brain-limited and muscle-limited work meant to attack scarcity.
Capitalism frees people from judging scarcity-oriented value
Agelessness (not immortality) frees people from capitalism's silly (inevitable) limits. Arguably, likewise any other system based on biological aging.
But mainly, not aging forces people to accept they are free. It collides with the inherently toxic status quo of living in comfort at the expense of others, and at the expense of one's excessively short time alive.
With time on your side you do not need to vampirically extract your comfort in matter/space/time from others (however distant and anonymous).
With time on your side you do not need to trade your short time alive for survival wages from rent-seeking agents not acting in yours and others' interests (being free and alive - vulgar reduction but that's what is).
All of the idiotic cabin fevered infighting dissolves once people's light cones literally open up to divergent trajectories. Instead of being bound to each other in perpetual (where a pro-aging status quo maintains) labor.
Infighting, from actual wars over scarcities (and scarcity-based grudges), to seemingly innocuous but fundamentally counter-productive things like cultural zero sum games, but also like less immediate contradictions such as the current form of taxes, education, etc.
Dismantling institutions whose survival depends on aging, is inevitable.
Any country that refuses to adopt anti-aging is inherently uncompetitive with those that haven't.
Automation frees people from brain-limited and muscle-limited work meant to attack scarcity.
Capitalism frees people from judging scarcity-oriented value
Agelessness (not immortality) frees people from capitalism's silly (inevitable) limits. Arguably, likewise any other system based on biological aging.
But mainly, not aging forces people to accept they are free. It collides with the inherently toxic status quo of living in comfort at the expense of others, and at the expense of one's excessively short time alive.
With time on your side you do not need to vampirically extract your comfort in matter/space/time from others (however distant and anonymous).
With time on your side you do not need to trade your short time alive for survival wages from rent-seeking agents not acting in yours and others' interests (being free and alive - vulgar reduction but that's what is).
All of the idiotic cabin fevered infighting dissolves once people's light cones literally open up to divergent trajectories. Instead of being bound to each other in perpetual (where a pro-aging status quo maintains) labor.
Infighting, from actual wars over scarcities (and scarcity-based grudges), to seemingly innocuous but fundamentally counter-productive things like cultural zero sum games, but also like less immediate contradictions such as the current form of taxes, education, etc.
Dismantling institutions whose survival depends on aging, is inevitable.
Any country that refuses to adopt anti-aging is inherently uncompetitive with those that haven't.