#bryan johnson

[teslafactory]

given that luigi's (alleged?) manifesto says 'it really wasn't that difficult to assassinate a ceo', it would be extremely funny if the feds were trying to frame him

[mirkokosmos]

“Death isn’t fate, it’s an engineering problem.”

~Bryan Johnson

[bluesky-out-of-context]

[worstgirlintheclub]

plasma vampire bryan johnson walking for Matières Fécales a/w26 rtw

[victusinveritas]

"'Dear humanity, I am building a religion. Wait a second, I know what you’re going to say. Hold that knee-jerk reaction and let me explain. First, here’s what’s going to happen: + Don’t Die becomes history's fastest-growing ideology. + It saves the human race. + And ushers in an existence more spectacular than we can imagine. It is inevitable. The only question is: will you be an early or late adopter?' he posted."

The guy who eats green slurry and monitors his son's nocturnal erections in a bid to live forever is starting a religion, and using 2010s web copy rhetoric instead of the immortal verses of the psalmist and the prophets to do it.

This is why I mute the phrase "let me explain" from social media platforms. "

-from a friend who is much better with words but likes to remain anonymous.

[apesoformythoughts]

I'd love to have written this article:

Likewise, John Paul II wrote extensively about how, within the Christian faith, the body is ultimately for love. To pursue optimal bodily health for its own sake is to risk a kind of neuroticism that cannot help but tend toward control of the body, just as it does not make sense to merely appreciate the aesthetic quality of a good meal that is, in fact, made to be consumed. I think this is what Wendell Berry implied when he wrote that, “From our constant and increasing concerns about health, you can tell how seriously diseased we are.”

If it is the case that we should primarily attend to our bodies when we experience disease, then Bryan Johnson is, contrary to his entire project, the sickest man alive. It is as if his body is always sick, always deficient. His body is constantly present to him, and therefore constantly under his medicinal control.

Many basic assumptions create the world that nurtures a Bryan Johnson figure, but for the sake of this essay, I’d like to emphasize just one. A society-wide obsession with physical health—the condition required for Johnson’s project—is often the product, as Berry routinely reminds us, of a highly technocratic world.  

How is this so? Our technocratic society can separate us from the relationships that are most essential to our flourishing, and with them, the means for learning about, healing, and strengthening our bodies. In Berry’s words, such a world attempts to “separate us as far as possible from the sources of life (material, social, and spiritual), to put these sources under the control of corporations and specialized professionals, and to sell them to us at the highest profit.” Without the opportunities to strengthen (and enjoy) our health through the daily activities of life, health becomes an object one must purchase directly in the marketplace (e.g., gym memberships, nutritional supplements) and at the cost of abandoning other activities: time with friends and family, hobbies, etc [...]

Johnson’s lifestyle is, unfortunately, just an extreme version of the mindset that traps many of us; it is a lifestyle adopted by everyone who seeks to transcend their human frailty one 5 a.m. workout at a time. It is the lifestyle of every new mother who thinks she must return to the exact bodily form (weight, shape, etc.) she maintained before giving birth. It is the lifestyle of every retiree who desperately pushes back the aging process through a constellation of supplements and medical interventions.  

— "A Sick Man in a Sick World"

[yourelfcom]

I’ve been getting heavy into the longevity scene these past years.

Progress isn’t linear, and I am definitely looking like Bryan Johnson 2023 right now. (source)

[iteratedextras]

I dunno man.

At this point I think maybe we're not going to get useful self-experimentation data out of this guy. I think maybe he's just gonna die, like in the next 10 years.