Accelerating World
Every life leads to a death; it is an inevitable cycle of life. With the mindset of having to be eliminated from this world someday, people from different time periods use different ways to last forever in this world. Barbara Adam and Hartmut Rosa both talk about how people deal with their finite life. Adam talks about Stonehenge people who believe in afterlife and that is their way of dealing with death, they would be transcendental-future oriented.
Not only myth, ritual and art, but also some of the earliest forms of monumental architecture can be viewed as expressions of the human endeavour to create stability and permanence on the one hand and as a quest for the meaning of existence, origin and destiny on the other” …show more content…
There is no doubt that there are too many things one wants to accomplish in a limited period of time, but life would not be worth living if it could last forever; everything people desire, at one point in their eternal lives, would be reached and they would be doing everything over and over again. By the end, only boredom remains. One might argue that people could always find new things to do and keep themselves out of being bored. But as Callahan stated: Old people “ simply don’t have their earlier energy or interest. Why do we assume that this is all going to radically change by virtue of anti-aging research?” (Stock and Callahan 557) His statement supported my argument that at one point of people’s life, things would just become boring and people would lack the energy to explore new experience;
Most of the older people have dropped out. They fade out. I don’t believe that if you give most people longer lives, even in better health, they are going to find new opportunities and new initiatives. They will want to come and play more golf maybe, but they aren’t going to contribute lots of brand new ideas…” (Stock and Callahan
Every life leads to a death; it is an inevitable cycle of life. With the mindset of having to be eliminated from this world someday, people from different time periods use different ways to last forever in this world. Barbara Adam and Hartmut Rosa both talk about how people deal with their finite life. Adam talks about Stonehenge people who believe in afterlife and that is their way of dealing with death, they would be transcendental-future oriented.
Not only myth, ritual and art, but also some of the earliest forms of monumental architecture can be viewed as expressions of the human endeavour to create stability and permanence on the one hand and as a quest for the meaning of existence, origin and destiny on the other” …show more content…
There is no doubt that there are too many things one wants to accomplish in a limited period of time, but life would not be worth living if it could last forever; everything people desire, at one point in their eternal lives, would be reached and they would be doing everything over and over again. By the end, only boredom remains. One might argue that people could always find new things to do and keep themselves out of being bored. But as Callahan stated: Old people “ simply don’t have their earlier energy or interest. Why do we assume that this is all going to radically change by virtue of anti-aging research?” (Stock and Callahan 557) His statement supported my argument that at one point of people’s life, things would just become boring and people would lack the energy to explore new experience;
Most of the older people have dropped out. They fade out. I don’t believe that if you give most people longer lives, even in better health, they are going to find new opportunities and new initiatives. They will want to come and play more golf maybe, but they aren’t going to contribute lots of brand new ideas…” (Stock and Callahan