The Times is doing "op-eds from the future," written as if published many years from now. And while most of them are from science fiction writers, the latest is from ... mehttps://nyti.ms/2XTREfv
This is the most short-sighted, unethical, & inhumane thing Krugman had ever written. If the rich don't subsidize regenerative medicine first, none of us will get regenerative medicine. Ever. You're advocating for a death sentence on every living person.
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Martin Rees wrote something similar the other day. He also appears to be a cheerleader of death. The war on longevity has started. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/human-life-expectancy-immortality-negative-effects-by-martin-rees-2019-07 … “I don’t think it would be good if cryonics ever did succeed.” ― Martin Reespic.twitter.com/X3w6ytJmWQ
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That's deeply disappointing from someone who should know better.
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Imagine hating a group of people (tech billionaires) so much, you’re willing to sentence billions to an avoidable death just to spite them.
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Exactly. Future people will cite this article as a classic example of the 'pro-death trance', as Aubrey de Grey calls it. The view that death is natural, and therefore good and necessary and ethical.
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“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." —
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Yup, wanted to post that.
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I understand where you're coming from and agree that Krugman's motivation is likely an unhealthy resentment. However, I'm not sure that death isn't the handmaiden of growth, adaptation, or even being itself. Mature organisms making way for novelty has a decent track record.
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I'd be keen to hear your thoughts on Peterson and McGilchrist describing the necessity of constraint and opposition to the being of the processes that we are and inhabit. Relevant portion starts around 19 minutes in and runs for the next several minutes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtf4FDlpPZ8#t=19m3s …
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These things are not done to provoke thought, they are done to foster adulation.
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As it should be. Ashes to ashes.
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