Welcome to KevsPlace.Net - A Site for Sore Lives

Introduction

New technologies born of the human intellect and drive for discovery can be coupled with compassion to create a world where the preoccupation with physical suffering may be replaced with a focus on other challenges, like getting along and looking after our planet. Aging is a fundamental biological challenge and a limitation on the human capacity to accomplish. The short-term perspectives which result from productive lifespans sandwiched between the ages of 30 and Freedom 55 cannot maintain the culture and civilization we have today, let alone provide for the building of a better world for the future. If we are to deal with the long-term problems of today and advance human culture and civilization, we must repeat the past and increase the length of time that people are alive in order that the potential of the wisdom and experience they attain in life can be explored and realized. The existential risks which face humanity today require a common acceptance of the need to cooperate and face these global problems together. Mature perspectives of the necessity for cooperation and the need for developing 'win-win' scenarios, rather than using out-moded competitive models that can only continue to provide inadequate answers to complex modern problems, will be the result of longer and healther lifespans.

Never before in the history of our species have we been this close to addressing this biological glass ceiling imposed by a genetic evolution more concerned with the transfer of the information stored in our DNA than the information stored in our brains and cultures. We are now able to envision a world where the suffering and burden of age-related disease is drastically reduced if not eliminated altogether, a world where getting older is truly something that enriches rather than diminishes the individual and society.

I hope you may find the time to visit The Methuslelah Foundation and hear about the efforts of a very unique organization leading the charge in the real War on Aging, and perhaps join with us if you share this vision.

Writings

Life or Death?
Are You an Elephant?

Favorite Poetry

I am Not Resigned

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love, --
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave,
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Favorite Quotes

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer