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

[Al Brooks]

Correct, not alot of reason but enough reason all the same. I'm fifty, and have no intention whatsoever of being active anymore after arguing day in day out with ludds of all stripes since, oh, about 1968. You think I don't know how slowly we are evolving in terms of one person's lifespan? Think I don't know what it still means to be a man? Do you think a guy with two inches of forehead would be so foolish at fifty to let a woman advise him on being a man?-- would a sensible woman listen to a man attempting to advise her on being a woman? I'm not angry, but am thoroughly mystified that you would think I don't know what the score is. Am simply nonplussed. 
  There is almost no purpose in trying to explain it.
   
  >Samantha Atkins wrote:
  >If you intend to be merely passive you probably won't have a lot of 
>reason to stick around.

> 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.

Some people used to say that about age 30, or 40, or 50. You are 
whatever age you are in what ever shape you are and you do the most 
you can with what you have. There is no point in assuming it is over 
at some fixed age or even below some level of health. It is over 
when you give up except for the actual dying part.

> 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.

If "spontaneous" and "rote" are your only modes then I am hardly 
surprised that you aren't enjoying yourself.

> 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.

I hope to someday wear such a button and utterly mean it and have 
people believe it is true.

- samantha


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