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by pauleastlund
4041 days ago
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This is me reading between the lines -- so maybe not the parent commenter meant at all! -- but I think the point is that all sorts of grudges, prejudices, and regrets naturally expire through generational turnover, and in a world without aging that natural expiration won't be there to help society put the past behind us. |
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I could come up with ridiculous 'nightmares', and interpret them, as well:
I wake from nightmare worlds where 'world hunger' is cured but 'satiety' becomes broken.
Interpreted as:
Without scarcity peoples' greed will continue to grow unabated. The lust for consumption will result with the depletion of natural resources, and the destruction of society.
The dream is a non sequitur; and even taken as a metaphor, it has gapping holes in the logic!
1. Prejudices are passed down through generations.
2. People change their position on subjects, when new information becomes available.
3. There's nothing 'natural' about living short lives. Some species live longer than us; and some are even negligibly senescent[0]!
4. I've established there's at least one other mechanism by which people can alter their ideas (point 2). Others could be found.
5. Dying of cancer (and other diseases) seems like the worst possible solution to the problem. Torturing people who don't age, and then not have them die in the end seems more humane! (That may be the second worst solution). Killing healthy 150 y/o, so that there's generational turnover would also work (I would prefer that to the status quo, personally). Under such circumstance, I think it probable a reasonable remedy could be found (sans death, pain, and indignity)!
Thanks for the interpretation, but you may have been overly charitable!
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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence