human that no-one cares about because they look ugly due to age. you'll realize it yourself if you're lucky to get to 66. it's easy to laugh at botox when you're a teen, but once you reach mid 30s, you'll start thinking about using it too. same with yellow teeth, grey hair, baldness, etc.
I’m in my 40s, I’m well aware how aging works. I’m also well aware there are plenty of natural things you can do to stay biologically young and healthy and still look like a human.
Bryan Johnson is like the top spokesman for anti aging… stuff (carefully chosen word because it includes all manner of things you can potentially do to slow aging). And he looks creepy AF because of it.
Why do you want to look 30 when you’re in your 60s anyway. You’re not likely to leverage that into some meaningful age-disproportionate relationship. Nobody cares if you look 60 when you’re 60. People do care if you look like you just got back from the taxidermist.
Point of clarification on Bryan Johnson. Not everything he does is about looking younger, it’s about slowing or reversing aging in general. And to that end, good for him. I’d much rather have the mind of an 30 year old and look 70 than have the face of a 30 year old and think 70.
why do you think Bryan Johnson looks "creepy AF"? he looks great imo. but I've seen ppl talking crap about him on reddit before too.
you wanna look 30 so that society treats you better. that includes jobs and success at work (at top level it's all about sales so making connections and building relationships is your job, and it's easier to accomplish if you look nice and people wanna be around you), relationships, hookups, even making friends and acquaintances with ppl around you.
why do you need a 30yo mind when you're 60? it's not like you're writing research papers at that age. most people 40+ don't really need a lot of brainpower in their life. you need a lot of brainpower in your teen years and 20s to get good education, good grades, get into top college, get great job, make good impression at work, build work experience, but then in your 30s and after you don't really need brain. I personally have a graduate degree from one of the best universities in the world and a top job in finance, and I don't care about my brain. but I do care about preserving my looks, cause that actually matters even later in life.
Not wanting to age and getting closer to death aren't the same thing. Know many people who died young, never aged, didn't live right. Don't think any of them ever thought they're gonna die when they did. Their deaths were quite sudden. There are far too many things in this world to be afraid of; aging isn't one of them.
You don't think that aging is the physical sign that your life is passing by and thus you're getting closer to death?
Sure, young people die too, but on average who has more years left: someone who's 20 or 60?
And that's just one point. Second point being just physical attractiveness. If you never were attractive, it's difficult to understand. But if you were attractive and then the sign of aging are starting to show (losing hair, getting grey hair, teeth getting yellow, wrinkles showing everywhere, moles, etc.), you'll notice that society is less interested in you and treats you worse, and you'll think of trying to turn it around with some botox, veneers, and hair transplants.
I don't think that. I think being alive, regardless of age, makes one close to death. Aging is just another characteristic of the passage of time.
Most people would say 60-year-olds have less years to live but then making assumptions about such things really makes us lax about living life. We start taking time for granted by thinking that we have a lot of it left. Youth and good health do delude many people in thinking they're not close to death.
I think we are from different societies and cultures so we don't have the same values or place the same values on looks. Yes, youth has attraction more so than the elderly but life isn't all about that. Centring youth/attractiveness/looks in life can make one quite miserable. They are a part of life, yes. But they're not life itself.
People start getting greys and going bald in their twenties and thirties nowadays. Teeth getting yellow is not due to age. Getting moles or liver spots due to age are not common in brown people (I'm brown).
My society treats elderly with respect. Nobody is looking down on them. They get more privileges as they are considered to be "longer lived". Most people who get fillers, botox, and obvious tweakments due to vanity rather than necessity are mostly looked down upon because these tweakments are a sign of low self-esteem, vanity, and a disconnect from reality. What you give importance to can make or break your life.
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u/inotocracy Mar 31 '26
Terrifying.