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I agree wholeheartedly with trying to extend lives and make them pleasant. What I'd like to know is why so many people run around causing chaos by overconsuming. Why don't they settle for eating and procreating like the other species? Is it because they want to give their life meaning?
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What I'd like to know is why so many people run around causing chaos by overconsuming. Why don't they settle for eating and procreating like the other species? Is it because they want to give their life meaning?
Before agriculture, our mythology served to keep us in harmony with our environment, but once we started amassing a surplus, a culture of dominance emerged to control it for the benefit of a minority; colonialism and capitalism have descended from that dominion, and marketing is devoted to perverting people's natural drives, including the search for meaning, into consumerism to feed the obese few at the top.
Why don't people settle for a simple and meaningful existence? Because it's not available - who's there to welcome them into a sustainable way of life? We swim in trickle-down piss, and take it for water.
Kimmo
I completely agree with your regarding value of the continuation of humans on this rock,
While my view like yours is that in the scheme of things we are a blip and likely to disappear well before this lump of rock explodes. And so what?
This does not take away from trying to extend the longevity of humans and to aim collectively to keep as many people as possible content and pain free for as long as possible, an approach our health professionals take for individuals (a philosophical take as you suggested)