What if you could take a pill that would stop aging and cancer?
Lets posit, that you would live 20 or 30 years longer. A whopping 20 more years before you die. What would that do to the earths population? If you, and your three children, live to be 120 instead of 80 or 90, what additional resources would be required of the planet?
If 3 million men weren't killed in the Vietnam War, 4 generations of their children would be alive today, as would they. Some 300 million more people would exist on the Earth.
Overpopulation would cause more death, misery, gloom and doom than all the nuclear weapons in the world. We keep Nuclear weapons technology secret, so one would have to assume they would also have to keep knowledge of life extending treatments secret.
Even simple surgeries like bypass surgery and angioplasty are keeping people alive much longer than the technologies of just a few years ago allowed. Older people are being denied these treatments based solely on their age. “You are too old to get this surgery. You might not survive.” Well, they certainly won't survive without the surgery.
Scientists have recently discovered exactly how cells break down in the aging (cancer) process. Cells lose the ability to generate the signals that kill themselves off or stop themselves from reproducing. When a cell goes bad in your body (dna breakdown = aging = cancer) there is a natural process by which the goofy cell tells itself to stop reproducing and / or destroy itself. It is when this natural process stops working that we get out of control tissue growth (cancer) and or aging. I would guess that some day scientists will be able to restore our goofy cells ability to kill themselves off with a simple pill or injection. We will one day be able to stop, reverse or severely retard the entire process of aging / cancer with a $2 pill. (aging and cancer are Very similar. If you cure cancer, you cure aging)
In the oldest writings in history, we find men thinking about what will happen when people on earth live forever, the way it is in heaven. We find the most powerful men in the world (The Pharaohs, The Chinese Emperors, the Aztecs, the Nazi's, The Bible) searching for the fountain of youth, for the elixir of life that will make us live forever. From pills that can stop aging, people can be brought back from the dead (cloned), to new organs grown from your own cells and transplanted, or an entire new body cloned, and your head sewn onto it: Unless a huge meteorite comes and wipes our species out, we will eventually learn how to live forever.
It is an obvious conclusion to all that think about this issue (and know math) that so many people would be alive, that civilization would run out of the ability to feed them all. Therefore these kinds of life extending treatments would need to be rationed or kept secret. Since it would take a use of force to prevent a man from taking the $3 pill that makes him live longer, only the State (which is run by the most powerful banking cartel in the world) could prevent people from getting life extending treatments because only the State has the monopoly on the use of force. Only the State could effectively keep such knowledge secret. And when the secret gets out, getting onto the list of those who WILL be allowed to live forever, will be the most important thing in the world.
So, take your number, and get on the list, as only the chosen ones get to live forever. Men will kill to get on the list. Nations will go to war for the technology. It is not a question of if, but when.
What if I had this pill? What if I could make you live forever? What would THAT be worth to you?
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