Putin and Xi’s creepy ‘immortality’ talk is a – Latest News
Tremble, mere mortals: The world’s least conscience-burdened strongmen are brainstorming how to stay round for one more century or more.
At Beijing’s navy parade Wednesday, a sizzling mic caught Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s bone-chilling dialogue (by way of interpreters) of extending their lives far past natural limits.
Putin mused: “Biotechnology is continuously developing,” so “human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality.”
Xi responded: “Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old.”
Maybe they’ll keep grinding their boots into humanity’s face without end!
Note, too, that grabbing an further century or two will get simpler when you’re not restricted by foolish notions reminiscent of respect for human life and dignity.
Mad Vlad’s concentrate on transplants is particularly alarm-raising, given China’s well-documented historical past of pressured organ harvesting from dissidents and despised minorities.
There’s a tyrant’s countless provide of blood and spare components proper there, to pump his veins full of teenage plasma and swap out growing older organs in perpetuity.
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Both dictators have absolutely heard of Bryan Johnson, the 47-year-old entrepreneur whose quest for everlasting youth included infusing himself with the blood of his then-17-year-old son in 2023: He now reportedly claims to have the “biological age” of 37, and for simply $2 million a 12 months in repairs.
It’s creepy enough when Silicon Valley weirdos go down this rabbit gap; with unchecked authority and huge assets at their disposal, think about what Putin and Xi can do.
Actually, they’re plainly imagining it (not less than) themselves.
OK, maybe it was simply macabre chitchat between two self-aggrandizing narcissists who assume the world successfully ends once they’re plucked from this mortal coil.
But it could possibly be a glimpse into precise plans of two stone-cold killers decided to keep tightening their grip on energy properly into the subsequent century.
