The Creative Solution

At this point Becker identifies the last illusion man has devised: the Creative Solution. This explains our urge to leave a legacy; to create a great work of art that has lasting impact and value; in essence to create something that carries our signature and lives on after we’re gone.

The Immortalist Thesis

The time has come for man to get over his cosmic inferiority complex. To rise above his condition - to use technology to extend himself beyond his biological limitations.
Harrington proclaims: “We have long since gone beyond the moon, touched down on mars, harnessed nuclear energy, artificially reproduced DNA, and now have the biochemical means to control birt...

The Creative Solution

At this point Becker identifies the last illusion man has devised: the Creative Solution. This explains our urge to leave a legacy; to create a great work of art that has lasting impact and value; in essence to create something that carries our signature and lives on after we’re gone.

The Immortalist Thesis

The time has come for man to get over his cosmic inferiority complex. To rise above his condition - to use technology to extend himself beyond his biological limitations.
Harrington proclaims: “We have long since gone beyond the moon, touched down on mars, harnessed nuclear energy, artificially reproduced DNA, and now have the biochemical means to control birth; why should death itself, ‘the last enemy’, be considered beyond conquest?”

I want to leave you with this biting and eloquent passage I read somewhere on the internet:
“There is nothing about death that is less than abominable. I am forever bewildered by the placating palaver wasted in efforts to quell this irrational horror. The cessation of all that is, the chasm that devours every memory, every fleeting intellection, every redeeming fragment of meaning and love and lust and friendship and hunger and hopeless vitality, and reduces it all to the inconceivable cosmic ash of nothing - That is my enemy.”
Enjoy your day.
- Jason Silva <<