I once saw on television, years ago
about some country's wise men, I think they were Buddhist philosophers

and they didn't release their work until they were 40 years old

it makes a lot of sense to me
you can be sure of things,
what sprung up in the follies of youth can be objectively looked at by a wiser mind and the follies edited

,
things move much quicker nowadays, now we have the net

so I don't do it, though I would have a couple of hundred years ago
and im glad my first philosophy didn't spend much time online.

But there are drawbacks in releasing your work so late in life

most people over 40 are has-beens
they don't have the vim and vigor they once had

and that would tarnish your work

the baby boomers did their peace thing, back when it was the “in thing”

it seems a shame that now they actually have all the power, they hardly work for altruistic goals anymore.
At a time they really could change the world for the better.
Nowadays they only care about their lawns getting mowed.

there will come a time
in the reasonably near future, when they invent a life prolonging drug

and we are going to stagnate then

mark my words
things will stop changing

there will be no vim and vigor
it would give the open minded lots of time to wizen up, but they'll get to an age when they decide they don't have to any more

it'd give the closed minded rich all the time in the world to fuck people over and make more money and get incredibly powerful

and a lot of lawns will get mowed and not much else.

It will completely change the dynamics of our society

you couldn't have children anymore because of overpopulation
which would leave a lot of people with nothing to do

but everyone's going to have nothing to do anyway as soon as robots can do pretty much anything a human can do

no one will need to work
no one will even need to so much as cook breakfast

we will have to think of a new way for people to live,
how they get money when they are completely unnecessary in the market place

it will be a new form of communism, and is exactly where capitalism will take us,
robots building robots will be cheaper than any suffering human's labor

it will be a strange, luxurious world
and a sad world, no children, nothing new,
never changing with no follies of youth making life interesting

I imagine the rich from the past will be the most comfortable
and the poor will just be in lazy luxury
we'll probably still not appreciate it

 

this is probably what the future holds

if you don't want us to end up lazy commies then tough luck
add up billions of narrow minds, and you get a narrow minded species, who don't care where they're ending up, just whats going to happen today

 

 

 

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