Are you happy with the economy?
End all wars, or end all diseases? Which would you choose?
Some scientists say the first human to live to 150 has already been born. If so, is it more likely that in the future super-longevity will be exclusively for the rich, or for everyone? And will people be likely to spend their days any better then than people do now?
If the Bilderbergs get their
way, the worlds poulation
will be reduced to 500
million ( for environmental
reasons ) and the richest
of the rich will live to 200+.
I had to laugh at such nonsense
till I saw who was on the
membership list.
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I wonder what future generations would think of that? Would they see the reduction of the earth’s population to half a billion a good thing? A bad thing? It’s hard to tell, I think? I’d sure hate to be one of those “reduced”.
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The machinations of morally
bankrupt men.
It will never happen.
But I have noticed the armchair
moralists of Hollywood have
latched onto the idea … Curious.
Several recent movies have
latched onto this idea. From
Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’,
Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’, to the recent ‘Avengers: Infinity War’.
It’s actually a declared policy
of the Greens, to dramatically
reduce the world population,
for enviramental reasons.
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Very scary! But in an odd way, at least understandable too. Over population seems to be a threat to so many things, and there only natural end in sight is a die off when it becomes too great to support.
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No.
Utopian dreams both! Will my choice make any difference? Both will destroy our planet further.
Longevity is not equal to happiness.
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Indeed! Longevity is certainly not the same as happiness. Good point.
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We were meant to live and die. Not just physically but mentally. Our lives tell a story with a beginning, middle and end. By living to a ridiculous age of 150 our lives would be overkill. Kind of like season 12 of The Big Bang Theory.
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I kind of wonder what people would think of a Stalin or Mao who ruled for a century.
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ECONOMY
Happy? I feel like the economy is too big and abstract to have a subjective opinion about that means anything. Like having an approval rating for a hurricane.
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Diseases. They kill a ridiculously larger number of people, and torture them first half the time. But I do note that wars are a major cause of epidemic disease, and untreated mental illness in politicans has led to many unnecessary wars, so really, eliminating one problem would surely help with the other.
LONGEVITY
The toys always filter down eventually. I feel like I have a decent guess in mind for the sort of person who will be the first 150 year old, though. Whether anyone will spend their days better I have no idea. Presumably, everything will be more crowded, so perhaps not.
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Good point about politicians with untreated mental diseases.
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On a side note, BEING a 150 year old sounds awful. Like, if you did it now, you’d have been born in 1868. What would you have in common with most people you meet? What would you even talk about?
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Excellent point. I don’t think most of us think about that.
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