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If flexibility and plasticity of thinking are age-related, couldn't prevention of ageing maintain that? I think it's inevitable that such a change would cause

by Nursie 2y ago

If flexibility and plasticity of thinking are age-related, couldn't prevention of ageing maintain that? I think it's inevitable that such a change would cause big social upheavals. I find it highly ironic that those people who call this out as a negative often also call out how people living longer are change averse. > I enjoy life but it's important to my enjoyment that there is a terminus. Can I ask why, genuinely? The fact that I will likely die sometime in the next 50 years doesn't make the evening out I have planned any better or worse. The band I'm going to see are getting older, but I'm going to see them because they're coming to my town and it'll be enjoyable. My eventual death has no bearing on it at all as far as I can tell.

voiceblue 2y ago
On the one hand, we enjoy real flowering plants more than fake ones, and delight in anticipating their blossoming, though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting. On the other hand, the only moment in which you have direct control and could actually affect is the current one. When Pinocchio made his wish, was “agency” all he wanted, or was there something more?
- Nursie 2y ago
  > though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting. I have recently been envious of a neighbours bushes - they flowered uninterrupted for many months, all spring, summer and autumn. Fantastic sprays of cream and crimson blooms. Both beautiful and long-lasting, I would love to plant those over more temporally limited ones that only flower for a few days per year. It is not the permanence that is unappealing about fake blooms, nor the brevity that makes flowers beautiful. To me anyway. Silk wallpaper with floral prints that has survived for hundreds of years in old British castles and country homes is no less beautiful for its age. I’m not sure I see the relevance of your other points. I guess we see things very differently.
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by Nursie 2y ago

voiceblue 2y ago

On the one hand, we enjoy real flowering plants more than fake ones, and delight in anticipating their blossoming, though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting. On the other hand, the only moment in which you have direct control and could actually affect is the current one. When Pinocchio made his wish, was “agency” all he wanted, or was there something more?

Nursie 2y ago
> though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting. I have recently been envious of a neighbours bushes - they flowered uninterrupted for many months, all spring, summer and autumn. Fantastic sprays of cream and crimson blooms. Both beautiful and long-lasting, I would love to plant those over more temporally limited ones that only flower for a few days per year. It is not the permanence that is unappealing about fake blooms, nor the brevity that makes flowers beautiful. To me anyway. Silk wallpaper with floral prints that has survived for hundreds of years in old British castles and country homes is no less beautiful for its age. I’m not sure I see the relevance of your other points. I guess we see things very differently.
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