Looking back where we were……
November 25, 2015 by Tom Burlingame
Filed under Integrations
Hello Mark!
You know it is extraordinary…..I think to myself……..when I look back……..at the kinds of attitudes and social condtioning we were exposed to decades ago. Especially with respect to my advocating anything as audacious and unheard of as biological immortality (and other high minded ideals).
Such comments such as “who do you think you are” and “the only two things that are certain are death and taxes” and “how selfish of you to even think of such a thing for yourself” “what about the later generations?” and “What is going to be left for them” and “Come on, you have to die just like everybody else” and “You have to sacrifice yourself, and conform and compromise and not expect too much” and ad nauseum!! Pausing to remember it………is well…….extremely unsettling. I dare say terrorizing!!
But this is where we were.
Now I am ACTUALLY hearing other people EMBRACE the idea of the value and desirability and even the insistence upon the prospect of actual real honest-to-God biological immortality!! Wow!! And other quintessentially high minded ideals such as the Prime Law. And Playing as a way of life.
So……..on the positive side……..how exciting it is………..to see how far we have come.
Mark, it only gets better from here……….
Tom B.
