Composition, 18b) world without death
Imagine if we were in a world that nobody dies. Nobody ever grow old, and nobody will suffer from sickness.Where no one will ever shed a tear for their departed kin, nor have to experience the sorrows of losing somebody they love. How great would it be? That will be what some people would think. It is, a thought like that would surely be present, but for how long?
Now imagine, how slowly time seems to pass, no one will have to work since one would not starve to death, no one will be motivated to do anything. All the people in this so called utopia would just be lying around doing nothing. Day after day, one would just laze around in the peaceful environment, at this rate, will one not go insane? Even if it is to play and have fun, no matter how fun is something, there will always be a limit, whereby one would then be bored with it. Perhaps they can move on to another game? Wrong. If we had eternity, there will come to a time where even the human mind would run out of ideas. What would you do with your time will then be a problem. Everyone will be too free.
How about playing computer games which no one will seem to get bored of? Wrong again. If everyone lived till eternity, what could be the chances of humans motivate themselves enough to work hard enough to even invent things? Talk about cavemen. They hunted for food just to survive, and through that, they discovered fire. If they did not bother to hunt in the first place because they are able to survive without food, they will never discover fire, neither will they be able to discover technology centuries later. Neither will our computer games come into place.
Whats more, if i ever find myself in this kind of world, i would definetly lose my senses. That apply to most people as well, an eternal mind which will never be at rest would lead to insanity, at least, that is what i think.
Now imagine, how slowly time seems to pass, no one will have to work since one would not starve to death, no one will be motivated to do anything. All the people in this so called utopia would just be lying around doing nothing. Day after day, one would just laze around in the peaceful environment, at this rate, will one not go insane? Even if it is to play and have fun, no matter how fun is something, there will always be a limit, whereby one would then be bored with it. Perhaps they can move on to another game? Wrong. If we had eternity, there will come to a time where even the human mind would run out of ideas. What would you do with your time will then be a problem. Everyone will be too free.
How about playing computer games which no one will seem to get bored of? Wrong again. If everyone lived till eternity, what could be the chances of humans motivate themselves enough to work hard enough to even invent things? Talk about cavemen. They hunted for food just to survive, and through that, they discovered fire. If they did not bother to hunt in the first place because they are able to survive without food, they will never discover fire, neither will they be able to discover technology centuries later. Neither will our computer games come into place.
Whats more, if i ever find myself in this kind of world, i would definetly lose my senses. That apply to most people as well, an eternal mind which will never be at rest would lead to insanity, at least, that is what i think.
2 Comments:
Wow, I didn't think you would write on a topic like that.
You have some interesting points and some assumptions which I would challenge. eg. why would this world be a 'peaceful' one? Given human nature, I would think war is still inevitable. Although you can argue no one is motivated to fight since there is your enemies won't die. But war is not about killing people ultimately, it's about having power over people.
So this world without death could be a vicious world, made all the more unbearable since one can't die and escape from it! It's hell on earth!
OK, shall not dwell on such dark thoughts. But good attempt at writing about a hypothetical scenario.
PS: The music is too noisy for my auntie ears la! Had to mute the volume on my computer!
oops, sorrie, i'll change it soon. Anyway, if war's about getting control over people, what can they do to you to control you? How people control others are because of sth they fear, but since they're immortals, what can they fear?
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