The Immortals

Today I hired Dorian Gray from video ezy. It's acutally better than the book itself [even though, in fact especially because, it doesn't stay perfectly true to the book], which is a first in the history of the human race, but that's not what this is about. The movie got me thinking about the concept of imortality itself. I don't think that immotality is for everyone.


Think of the practical implications. Immortals would have to be unable to breed, otherwise shit would get overpopulated and incesty, FAST. Don't think they'd happen?? The world has a population surplus right now, imagine what it woud be like if no one got old and died but kept having babies. And if they did have babies, they'd have babies, and they'd have babies, and they'd have babies, and they'd hae babies who would grow up and look exactly the same age as the first round of people. But this would be generations apart, and most relatives wouldn't keep in contact. And eventually they'd meet their great-grandchildren. And I'm not going to explain the next step, but I'm sure you can imagine it. In short, no babies for immortals.

But then there's a problem. The population wouldn't stay stable. Accidents always have and always will happen. Unless these immortals are entirely indestructible [which is about as probable as the Sun and Neptune breeding and having a litter of meteorites] then eventually some will die off, whether by accident or murder, which is never going to go away. Then the population would permanently go. And it could only go down if they couldn't breed.

So there could never be a stable society which is entirely comprised of immortals. They would have to be a minority, and so by definition are elitist. I'm not sure where I'm getting at with all of this, I'll have to think on it. And by all means, coment if oyu have an opinion.