If we only keep the wise ones I can see your point.
Nope. If you really want to preserve the best of civilizational traditions, invest in regenerative medicine & longevity research so people don't all have to die once they reach a certain age. If you keep wise people vital & vibrant, you keep wisdom vital & vibrant.https://twitter.com/AlbionBard/status/1230852526297305088 …
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Who would get to decide who is 'wise'? CNN? Twitter polls?
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You don't understand that death breeds vitality and vibrancy. Weird.
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Evolution breeds vitality and vibrancy. Death isn't relevant. It's just a tragedy weaponized by priests to promote terror and tithing.
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@Mangan150 writes about health and aging. His viewpoint is that human lifespan looks to be about ~115 maximum and that there are diminishing marginal returns to subsequent interventions. -
If you don't smoke, have a good diet, exercise 30 minutes per day, drink alcohol moderately, and maintain a healthy body weight, you are getting the bulk of the lifespan extension benefits. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.032047 …
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If everyone lives to 100 then nobody lives to 100. People have to be dead to revere them. Too much age in the institution makes it sclerotic. Just ask
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Wrong. Dreaming of a time where drop-off in fertility or lifespans themselves aren't an issue is fanciful & nothing to do with preservation of civilizational tradition. Venerating those who've made decisions mindful of our impermanence is how we keep the wider culture vibrant.
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When did young people start listening to and following the advice of old people?
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Huxley explores this idea in "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan". I won't spoil the ending, but let's just say the outcome of the experiment doesn't match the original intentions.
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