The purpose of civilisation is the Fountain of Youth.

[reddragdiva]

I submit that the only reason we bother with the pyramid scheme known as the modern economy, rather than working two hours a week to stay more or less at the same level, is to pay for medical technology.

Thus: the purpose of civilisation is to reach the Fountain of Youth.

At which point the world becomes Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. (Accelerando may be orthogonal.)

Discuss.

Comments

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

I am glad to be mortal, but you know this.

[gths.livejournal.com]

The scary part was checking out photos of a few years back, and I don't appear to have changed that much in that time.

I assume this changes pretty quickly once things start to get a run on, though.

[reddragdiva]

I was feeling creaky at 28. My wife just found a photo from then. "You look so young!"

[ajohnymous.livejournal.com]

A good yoga practice can do much more as a fountain of youth than the majority of medical technology.

It's also near free and wouldn't get in the way of working two hours a week.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

The irony, of course, is that working more than two hours a week causes premature aging through all of the stress that goes with a full-time job.

I blame the puritans.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

rather than working two hours a week

Isn't this what rich people do? It doesn't really take much time to say "it's my money, you can't have it".