The spirit of optimism is expanding widely in our age of unreason. This is bringing change in practices, ideologies, action and a more universal attitude towards science and technology.
Apartheid, communist societies and slavery are a few examples of obsolete social, economic and political systems. They are being left behind with all its sorrows and pain caused to human life. The downfall of authoritarianism at various levels of societies is augmenting the fluidity of our ego. We are seeing a more encompassing acceptance and evolution of common markets, international economics, communication satellites, space travel, nuclear energy and biological control of life.
It is the first time ever that our human society is undergoing such a radical restructuring. The social ideologies and institution are now being challenged and opposed. Any movement or revolutions that try to supersede our political, economic or social conditions are literally referred to as being radical. However, the cosmic revolution of science occurring is hard to accept but fundamental for progress. People are still abstaining to the possibility that man will be living on the moon very soon. Yet, it is scientifically very feasible.
Possibilities
The things that are possible are well beyond our notions. However, developments are hindered and defended to maintain traditions and ideologies that have lived for millennia. This explains our resentment for going to the moon, or more drastically, changing the human condition. These are far-reaching ideologies which our intellect and psyche refuse to cope with. People even act with opposition when they are conveyed with the possibility of eternal life.
The altering conditions in time and space are hard to cope with. People can handle old “radicalism” conferred through religions, government and economic conditions. The biological alteration is too emotionally threatening that it bestows resistance. It represents a new order of things and a reorientation of social and psychological facts.
In respect to revolutionary occurrences across time and space, democracy, liberalism and socialism are already old accepted rationalities. The progressive order of things is in the light of a biological revolution. Progress resulting in violence is somehow romantics, archaic and negligible.
Death and Life
In early times, people offered their lives in wars and battles. The supreme sacrifice was believed to have its reward in life after death. Leaders proclaimed that one could give his life for a cause and to live in an afterlife. Today, leaders can no longer promise life after death. Death is regarded as the wildest tyranny. It is tantamount to the demise of freedom and progress.
Nowadays, life is too valuable to be sacrificed. What people would refer to as common sense in the past is now connoted as stupidity. An example is “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”. We all know that soldiers’ who are fighting today will have been forgotten by year 2050. They will join the batch of billions of faceless, nameless and forgotten soldiers’ who have died in fierce battles on our mother earth.
A New Battle; Against Aging
The new battle has just commenced. However, we will no longer fight against one another. The battle will be to stay alive to year 2100, and in year 30,000 and even in year 3,000,000. This is certainly the most radical determination that mankind has ever upraised.
The deployment of intellectual capital in militant behaviour does no longer impress anyone else than maybe a girlfriend. It is no longer considered as being revolutionary. The upcoming revolutionaries are no longer soldiers but rather geneticists, physicists, biotechnologists, cryonologists, biologists, nuclear scientists, cosmonauts, inventors and many others. These ingenious people will bring enhancement to human society far beyond what the ideologies of the old orders (soldiers) have done.
There are promising solutions emerging for various sturdy concerns of the past like for famine answers are surfacing. The possibility to alleviate famine is no longer solely feasible by increasing food production it can also be achieved by synthetic nourishment.
Solving biological Inequality
Some people are born weak others strong, some beautiful while other ungainly, some shorts and other tall as well as some brilliant while others are dumb. There is no biological equality in this world. In reality, all the social inequalities that exist are unconstitutional. The biological inequality is the ground for all the flopping impoverishing inequalities that evolve in society. In other words, some people are born more fortunate than others.
However, one right that scientists are proclaiming to sustain is living forever. This revolutionary ideology can only be convened if the tyranny of death is overthrown. All humans should also be considered equal; we are all living in the third world & we are all proletarian.
The future of immortality is regarded as a science fiction. However, scientists are claiming that a future with biological immortality is within our reach. The mysterious of the future such as eternal values of human longevity is something which goes beyond space and time.
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Source: Alephe : Towards New Ideologies
Anti Aging, Immortality, Lifestyle, Nanotechnology, Stem cells
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Anti Aging, Immortality, Lifestyle, Nanotechnology, Stem cells