Is there a word for this sort of treachery? The living for yourself for as long as you can even if the earth is uninhabitable afterwards? You know the opposite of living for family or nation (maybe even for God) where the most meaningful thing in the world is to have a people, to feel laxity is a sin and fighting to your last breath for something larger than yourself is glorious? I realize we've all walked down this road of losing 'our people' so much that we are all marked by this treasonous greed for living to 120, in a diaper for half your life at that point, no matter the tax burden on the rest, but surely there must be an alternative?
First of all, people keep talking about entering the matrix and living forever separated from their weakened flesh and its aging. I don't understand why people think reading your brain to a level of detail so as to make a digital-you ends the real you in the process? I've never understood that part. But the standard downloading-your-brain model of immortality necessarily murders the meat-man so the digital-man believes they're the original rather than the digital-man existing after a brain-scan makes them and the meat-man continues on with their life, right? I mean that would let the cat out of the bag if we didn't icepick every brain scanned into the system, and people woke up to their duplicate walking around in the matrix rather than them. I imagine it would be the same for the digital copy too? I don't understand why atheists mock an afterlife, and don't have kids so they can spend the money on themselves, only to murder themselves putting a copy of themselves into a computer, and I never will. That's some satanic thoughts, a real Nietzschean-Abyss madness that could be infectious if stared into.
Are we really going to Ship-of-Theseus humanity by unlocking a form of parasitic asexual reproduction where we harvest from stem cells thinking they are a new us with our DNA and everything? Will we still be able to sexually reproduce by the end of this train of medicine or are there going to be Altered Carbon like centennials walking around as a permanent Aristocratic class?
This is evil. People have to see that this isn't heroic, or even human.
I'm willing to bet the NAD+ supplementation leads to cancer. I know raising your NAD+ levels helps with PTSD and opioid addictions, and that it helps with general stress and cognition. However short-circuiting your metabolism always leads to long-term losses, such as the effects of habitual drug use. I think some
old-school Classical Greek Cynicism, and seeing the purpose of life is to live in virtue, in agreement with nature. As reasoning creatures, people can gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which is natural for themselves, rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, and fame, and even flouting conventions openly and derisively in public. Instead, they were to lead a simple life free from all possessions. Trying to live forever alternative to this, doing what you hate all the while, so that you're really set to live by the time you're 80 is no way to run a life.
Secure enough to be able to tell people to Fuck Off, make friends following a hobby that teaches you hard work pays off, find a women to mock for falling in love with you and make her as emotionally frustrated as possible. Have some kids too, maybe not until your 30s and you've been married for a while. Let them inherit your works, especially the crazy ones.