Immortality has been the dream of autocrats for millennia. As soon as we see centralized oppressive regimes, we see leaders obsessed with immortality and their afterlife.
Death is the final equality and we’ll always see the most bloated parasitic elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.
It’s wild that after so many thousands of years of rulers chasing the mystical arts and obscure kookery to gain immortality, we’re actually living in the age where we have an understanding of biology and physical processes on a deep enough level that we can actually conceive of real immortality as a possibility.
Which proves to me that these oligarchs and dictators are complete idiots. Because if they had several brain cells to rub together, they would be converting all that stolen wealth into science and research on moonshot scales to unlock biological immortality or anti-aging tech close to it. Sure they would still horde the tech as long as possible, but the point is they are like everyone else… incapable of investing in their own future over maintaining social status in the here and now.
Immortality has been the dream of autocrats for millennia. As soon as we see centralized oppressive regimes, we see leaders obsessed with immortality and their afterlife.
Death is the final equality and we’ll always see the most bloated parasitic elites trying to skirt their responsibility to die like it was their fair share of the tax burden.
It’s wild that after so many thousands of years of rulers chasing the mystical arts and obscure kookery to gain immortality, we’re actually living in the age where we have an understanding of biology and physical processes on a deep enough level that we can actually conceive of real immortality as a possibility.
Which proves to me that these oligarchs and dictators are complete idiots. Because if they had several brain cells to rub together, they would be converting all that stolen wealth into science and research on moonshot scales to unlock biological immortality or anti-aging tech close to it. Sure they would still horde the tech as long as possible, but the point is they are like everyone else… incapable of investing in their own future over maintaining social status in the here and now.
Nicely phrased! A++ would read again.