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No, nobody is going to object to feeling like a 25-year-old for their entire life. It's not about vanity. I would be totally fine with appearing to age, if I
by trey-jones 9y ago
No, nobody is going to object to feeling like a 25-year-old for their entire life. It's not about vanity. I would be totally fine with appearing to age, if I could run and jump, and recover the same at 70 as I did at 25.
Is there any more universal dream than eternal youth, or even youth for a lifetime?
- milquetoastaf 9y agoIronically, the whole point of the 'fountain of eternal youth' stories is that people wasted their entire lives looking for it rather than enjoying life / what they were given. Age extension technology is going to be the doom of humanity as we know it. Death right now is the only equalizer we have to our own destructive and damaging tendencies to the planet and ourselves at large. Living longer just means more waste, more war, more inequality, all the behest of the richest who get access to life extension technologies first. Don't kid yourself.
- randallsquared 9y ago> Ironically, the whole point of the 'fountain of eternal youth' stories is that people wasted their entire lives looking for it rather than enjoying life / what they were given. On a meta level, perhaps those stories are an example of 'sour grapes'? :)
- trey-jones 9y agoI think the greater irony is that the Fountain of Youth was sought by people who weren't going to actually live to what we would call today "old age" anyway. I'm not actually looking for it by the way, but if somebody else finds it, I would like to get in on that action.