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In my teens and twenties, I was marching in various protests. When I became an immortalist, I carried that attitude with me. When I learned about the Research on Aging Act (ROAA) of 1974, I created the Anti-Aging Petition for two reasons.
One, it shares the idea that the government is backing anti-aging research for the average voter. The public needs to learn we are on track with anti-aging research as we speak. It’s a potential red-hot political issue.
Two, voters can call their Congresspeople to say they must give more funding to the ROAA to make it a reality in our lifetime. Most of the people I know are amazed that the government backs anti-aging! And it will create a large number of voters willing to vote for it.
Building a movement on anti-aging can lead to the next steps in scientific achievement for extending human life.
Evolution to a transhuman future can be achieved in three steps:
1. Anti-Aging and Rejuvenation
Aging today, for most people, is a matter of concern. Feeling and looking good both have become extremely important. Health issues are deeply involved. Once people learn of anti-aging research, they will push for a cure. Living in a healthy body will gain more support after accessible healthy anti-aging becomes a reality.
2. Life-Extension
When I ask people if they would like to live for hundreds of years, the answer is usually, “Yes! but I don’t want to continue to get old for those years! People will support longevity in a youthful healthy body and if the means are accessible n safe.
3. Bio-Immortality
The third and final step when science helps us to become transhumans in our lifetime. At this stage, the cosmic evolutionary future of our species opens wide.
With the internet and social media communicating any message fast, in a day, millions could learn about anti-aging on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram and sign the petition simultaneously. Eventually, each signed petition can be sent online to their local Congress member. This will create mass awareness will eventually turn to a world-wide political discussion.
Our main agenda is to raise awareness that aging is curable by addressing the source of degenerative diseases that plague our human species.
The baby boom population is aging the most. They were so proud to be young they cried out: ‘Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty’. Now they are buying useless anti-aging creams to smear all over their wrinkles. Young men and women thirty or up to fifty years of age could become part of a growing anti-aging voting bloc.
At present anti-aging and life extension will gather the largest majority of voters' support.
The World Health Organization has already declared aging a medical condition, and soon, life-extension will become far more prevalent thanks to the exponential developments in the fields of artificial intelligence and biotechnologies.
These days, when science hasn’t yet made transhuman immortality a reality, only a minority of the global population is willing to vote for it.
People need a more cosmic vision to join in. Transhumanists and Immortalists already have this vision. We know that living longer healthier lives is conditional to a longer healthier planetary existence.
Indefinite long, healthy lifespans are the first steps to manifest the next great era of human civilization.
Sign the petition today!
(Petition by Carl Carlyle. 1974)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carl Carlyle is an immortalist, futurist, musician, and a published writer. A graduate from UCLA in 1962 and later, while a student at Hastings Law College in San Francisco, he joined the Student League to Abolish Mortality and the National Institute of Health, becoming an avid advocate for the scientific control of aging, life-extension and biological immortality ever since. “In the daytime, I wore a suit and tie contacting politicians & business people to get funding for the new immortalist movement. At night, I formed a rock band called the Forever Maniacs and named myself ‘Johnny Forever’, singing rock songs about eternal youth and health. I also produced a musical in the 1990’s called Boomers Rock Forever, a comedy about taboos and the emerging science of immortality. I published a sci-fi trilogy The Cosmic Mutant, which tells the story of a love affair between Infinity and Eternity."
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