The reason people are hysterical about death, including religious from the Abrahamic to Transhumanism, is because civilization is dysgenic and in a dysgenic society every death is a loss of Creation.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> You know, if we could find a way to the stars, then suddenly, there's >> plenty of room for anyone who has ever lived, and anyone who wants to >> live forever. >> > > Naah, that just shoves the problem off into the future. See Asimov, "The > Last Question": > > http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html > > Besides, old people are not likely to travel so we we would end up having > them clutter up the earth, like the old people who are left in rural > districts in Japan after the young people moved to the big cities. That is > depressing, let me tell you! > > The older I get, the less patience I have for old farts. Especially people > in science such as Huizenga and Park. I agree with Max Planck that progress > in science occurs "funeral by funeral." > > A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and > making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, > and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. > > > We need to be rid of old people, to give young people their turn. Death is > as essential to social evolution as it is to biological evolution. > > It is essential to technology as well. James Watt was a gifted engineer > and he made some of the greatest contributions to technology in history, > but when he got old he held up progress. He insisted that steam cylinders > should be kept at low pressure for safety. He had great authority and > people stuck to his recommendations. After he died, Young Turks began > building high pressure cylinders, which reduced the weight of steam > engines, and improved the power to weight ratio. Without that, they could > not have made things like steam locomotives. > > - Jed > >
