Our Fucking New World

Lesson 4 - Selfish

What, what is the point of living if almost everyone these days wants to die. Is it a punishment to be alive? How have we fallen so far, that even our children aren't happy anymore? Children knowing that they are probably going to feel shit for the rest of their lives and can't do anything about it. Suicide is selfish but living is suffering. We were not ready for this change, this evolution to live longer lives. The whole point of living longer seemed good to people, having more time, way more time. But how it would affect our entire culture, was it worth it? Would they look back and be proud, or hate their legacy.

Are we ready for whatever change is next to affect society? I'm honestly surprised that we haven't nuked ourselves back to the stone-age. But will we ever do that? Will the change that humans wipe themselves out increase over the years? Is that the barrier that destroyed other civilisations in the galaxy? That one day our great reliever will come and kill us all, should we be happy? What an anti-climactic ending to all of those g2enerations of human culture. Imagine that we are the only or the last civilisation in the entire universe, the last string of life that crashed on earth and this is how life in the entire universe ended, forever.

Science-fiction starts getting scary once it starts happening. Once the first mice start living way beyond their normal lifespan. And this all happens in secret, next it's the first humans that start living way longer. And then the public slowly starts knowing about the mice and then the humans. People saying it is unethical and others say it is ethical. Then it slowly starts getting commercial. Giant debates on social media and different companies that offer different procedures. Fake promises are made to calm and cheer the public.