Life extension and the neo-Pharaohs
I’m interested in discussion so I’ll just kind of pose the question. If we agree that efforts are being made to reduce the availability of healthcare to working people, they’re restricting health data, hospitals are closing, no doctors available anywhere, food/environment/chemicals, are all going to undercut the gains working class and middle class people have made in living beyond 72 and there is going to be a growing class disparity in health and life expectancy…..
…and … we’re seeing a declining appreciation of science, a mystical understanding about health, a distrust of doctors, medicine, vaccines..
…and .. at the same time, the most radical things are being done with gene therapy, life extension, stem cells, adrenochrome harvesting.. whatever.. the peak life expectancy for certain people could theoretically go to 200 years old.
SO… we could see a world where the ruling class lives 200 years and the rest live 50, creating such a dynamic of complete power over information, resources, everything, it would be unbreakable.
I’m aware this is already the situation when you look at the average life span of an American vs the lifespan of a person from Afghanistan. And we see the effects of that. So the possibility of a breakaway society departing that many orders of magnitude beyond a typical american is non-zero.
I think of it as a many thousand year rule of neo-pharaohs. What do you all think?