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Originally Posted by Erki  What's so wrong with aging anyway? What makes a 80-year old creepy and 20-year old supreme? It's interesting too that while (some) people accuse youth of being bad, they also think of elders as somehow substandard. Young people go to nursery/childcare/school up to certain age, so they can become "useful". On the other end, old people go to retirement, maybe even live in retirement homes, when they have become "useless". In the middle, somewhere, business happens.  |
People are more "useful" nowadays in their middle ages because they've accumulated enough knowledge/experience to become "useful". It's not a matter of the appearence/age of the body, but of our knowledge/experience. If someone could have a body of a 20 year old and the knowledge/experience of a 100 year old, he would be very, very, "useful", much more than today's 40-60 years old, or as you say it, today's "useful" people.
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Originally Posted by Erki I took this quote out of context, yeah, but it's a good quote I think.  My question is: if we live forever as a 20-year old, where's the progress? Being a 20-year old body all the time seems more like stagnation to me. |
Stagnation? What do you call "progress" anyways? To have our bodies age and look older? Because that's the only progress i can imagine that you're meaning.
For me, progress is an accumulation of knowledge/experiences, and this kind of progress doesn't need to be followed by the body getting older and older. I don't need to have my body progressing towards death to feel that i'm progressing.