Slovakia here. It’s pretty liberating, TBH. Even despite trying to stay healthy and vital, one will eventually get sick or injured and will need help. It is nice that it is already paid (by taxes) and we can just get the needed care without fear of of ruining ourselves financially. Also meds are pretty cheap or free for patients.

The system is set out in the way that it is better for state that patients be healthy, because patients’ sickness is state’s expense. So state tries to limit its spending while still providing reasonable care. Although, it is hard with the population getting generally older (more serious, and so expensive, illnesses) while we still have only very limited medicine to reverse aging.

I am wondering how the universal health care system affects humans proactivity for preserving their health. But from what I have heard, it is unfortunately low in both cases 😕

Time for united European army. With better coordination, Europe can have stronger army even with the same funding.

Cool! Thanks!

Btw, there is Lemmy community [email protected].

As a longterm Esperanto Wikimedia activist, I approve 😎

This is a self-awareness at its peak!

Quite long overdue, but I am happy that it is moving!

When I was a child decades ago, there was still mentions about the manned European spacecraft Hermes. Now long dead.

Even Ariane was concepted as reusable back than but that was ditched for political reasons… Now it’s reusability planned only for the next generation of Ariane.

In the meantime, Europe lost its 3rd position in space to China and now also India is coming to overrun us 😐

How to get back on the track? 🤔

Nice temporary help. But we need a real long term solution. Our society is moving towards advanced automation, so current-like jobs are already becoming obsolete. We need change of the socio-economic system, so there will no more be a hard need to have a job / entrepreneurship to survive.

Personal development. Things like understanding ones own emotions and how to work with them, treating traumas, finding life purpose and how achieve / work towards it, transformation into more complex, developed consciousness (based on developmental psychology). Even spiritual development and enlightenment. I myself would need to learn a lot in order to be able to teach it greatly, but IMO this is a stuff that is really, really needed in society but hardly taught at all…

Sure nothing wrong can result from that. /s

Accepting self.

Yes, I generally more agree with that. Of course, the transition will be somewhat messy and some errors will be made. But generally I consider that it will follow more or less the path as other phisiopathologies, like cancer. In many countries, when someone gets cancer, he / she just gets the treatment. Despite it being freakingly expensive.

First versions of comprehensive treatments will most probably really expensive. And, same as with mobile phones, microwave ovens etc, the economy of scale, experience curve, generally laid down infrastructure and competition will drive costs down and availability will skyrocket. Also, I expect a bunch of those therapies to be eventually paid from public health care - prevention is better that a cure, and healthy people can more contribute to economy (and I hope that governments will value also other things about that, like life itself 🤗).

While I support bigger funding for ESA, IMO much bigger priority should be on curing aging (currently kills cca 80% of people) and creating peace. As much as I want colonies will inside and far beyond the Solar system, those other thighs are just more important even in short term.

Speaking Esperanto.

Ability to silent faster than others speak.

According to Ken Wilber, Bill Clinton said that the problem of Middle East is that less than 2% of world population is integral (on the integral level of consciousness). So it would be nice if more people would understand than and agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory#Levels_or_stages

Yeah, that’s understandable! The society teaches us from early age that there is a distinction between “diseases” and “aging”. So this distinction continues in our minds and we hardly ever question it. We learn it by imitation without deep understanding. In most cases it works well and serves as a usable and attention-saving shortcut. And it also may be responsible for prolonging old concepts that need a review.

A classical sign of an early worldcentric worldview that is more about competition than about collaboration. A level “orange” in Integral theory. But humankind is continuing its development to late worldcentric worldview “green” level and more. And Fediverse is helping with that!

Would you say that there is no need for better research for curing cancer just because new treatments will be super expensive, so only uber-rich zilionairs will benefit?

Probably not. (I hope)

Aging-caused diseases are really just some other type of health problems that leads to death. And curing such things is what medicine is doing. Heart bypass is a great example of helping to survive such problem.

And yes, new tech is usually expensive. And with adoption it became not only cheaper but better. Compare first mobile phones that was super expensive and could do nearly nothing to todays cheap smartphone that is more powerful than the computer that helped us to land on the Moon. If you care about health of poor and middle class people, you could rather help to accelerate the adoption, so more people can afford aging-reversal medicine sooner and not suffer from aging.