[extropy-chat] I keep asking myself...

[Al Brooks]

To my way of thinking it's worth living past seventy only to see what the future has in store; like perceiving the world as a film and wondering 'what will appear next on the screen'. To say "life begins at 60" is a joke, as in substituting the word 'mature' for old, what Orwell warned about albeit in a more sinister context. A word is made longer but has less meaning. It used to be one might say "I'm old and messed up"; now it's, "I have been becoming very mature lately, will be checking into Uptown Polyclinic for tests lasting several days". Tell you the truth I personally haven't enjoyed life-- really enjoyed life-- since I was 25, the ratio of spontaneous to rote is too off.
  So perhaps a little ageism is beneficial. Bet if you worse a button that reads 'Life Begins At 100'  you would have those taking it seriously.

			
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