Given the likely advances in science and medicine, this would be the exact wrong time to start imposing arbitrary and capricious age limits for public office.
science and medicine mostly prolong life or save lives.
they can (in a very limited manner) help somewhat with tiredness at old age.
healthy brain function is not improved that much with the help of health industry.
and we need those who their thinking is not fossilized. I don’t mean that as insult, it is just they way of life.
as I said they can of course be advisers.
are you saying most 110 years old are capable of holding highest offices?
like house of representatives? they need to move alot and talk to alot of people.
it is very tiring.
if not at 110 then at some age most of us are not really gonna be great at those “jobs”.
and another side to my point is that old people are gonna set in their politics and also is they survive the politics circus (many many terms) then they become like a family so they are not gonna rock the boat, so they usually become THE status quo.
look at Bernie and his support for jewish isis.
also they are not really good at fixing new problems (or even old ones) with new tools.
i don’t disagree, but affectually what are we to do?
solving the actual problem at hand here would mean fixing the flow of wealth, power, and capital away from the elderly.
the government is never even going to entertain that notion. that’s why we’re debating age limits instead of something that matters.
most people would emotionally bring up protest or violent revolution at this point, but, i honestly don’t think western populations will meet whatever thresholds must be met to catalyze such an event anytime soon. people don’t like to hear it but the masses are all bark and no bite. that’s why they trample us so publically and flagrantly now, they know there is nothing we could do against it bc 80% of people are too dumb or scared to care.
in such a world, sitting on the internet clamoring for revolution is honestly kind of cringe and i see it all over lemmy and other spaces. people who actually care are thinking strategically, what could realistically affect change in our struggle? knowledge is power. if (rhetorical you, in this context) your internal world model leads to you thinking shitposting is praxis, you’re part of the 80%. spreading the word doesn’t help because the problem isn’t that people are ignorant, they’re just fucking stupid. when we can’t agree what the signs and symbols we use to communicate even mean anymore what are we to do?
Given the likely advances in science and medicine, this would be the exact wrong time to start imposing arbitrary and capricious age limits for public office.
No. Once they achieve longevity, THEN look at it again maybe, but as of TODAY, many of the reps are too fucking old!
I thought Charles Darwin was smart, smh.
The likely advances now that the NIH was shut down?
science and medicine mostly prolong life or save lives. they can (in a very limited manner) help somewhat with tiredness at old age. healthy brain function is not improved that much with the help of health industry.
and we need those who their thinking is not fossilized. I don’t mean that as insult, it is just they way of life.
as I said they can of course be advisers.
are you saying most 110 years old are capable of holding highest offices? like house of representatives? they need to move alot and talk to alot of people. it is very tiring.
if not at 110 then at some age most of us are not really gonna be great at those “jobs”.
and another side to my point is that old people are gonna set in their politics and also is they survive the politics circus (many many terms) then they become like a family so they are not gonna rock the boat, so they usually become THE status quo. look at Bernie and his support for jewish isis.
also they are not really good at fixing new problems (or even old ones) with new tools.
i don’t disagree, but affectually what are we to do?
solving the actual problem at hand here would mean fixing the flow of wealth, power, and capital away from the elderly.
the government is never even going to entertain that notion. that’s why we’re debating age limits instead of something that matters.
most people would emotionally bring up protest or violent revolution at this point, but, i honestly don’t think western populations will meet whatever thresholds must be met to catalyze such an event anytime soon. people don’t like to hear it but the masses are all bark and no bite. that’s why they trample us so publically and flagrantly now, they know there is nothing we could do against it bc 80% of people are too dumb or scared to care.
in such a world, sitting on the internet clamoring for revolution is honestly kind of cringe and i see it all over lemmy and other spaces. people who actually care are thinking strategically, what could realistically affect change in our struggle? knowledge is power. if (rhetorical you, in this context) your internal world model leads to you thinking shitposting is praxis, you’re part of the 80%. spreading the word doesn’t help because the problem isn’t that people are ignorant, they’re just fucking stupid. when we can’t agree what the signs and symbols we use to communicate even mean anymore what are we to do?