Deadbeat Philosophy

The End of the World as we Know it - Part 2.

An interesting titbit from the scientific world this week started this off:

Researchers have found stem cells in menstrual blood and it is already suggested that women should freeze some as a source of future therapies. If you need a new liver, inject a hypodermics-worth of stem cells. Alzheimers? No probs. Lung cancer? Wrinkles? Sagging bum? ditto. (obviously, it won't be that easy. But you get the picture.)

If this news item turns out to be true (all the normal editorial caveats apply) then within our lifetime women will be able to expect a lifespan measured in centuries rather than decades.
Men, poor non-menstruating chumps that they are, do not flush their own personal secret of eternal youth down the toilet each month; stem-cell therapy for them will no doubt be possible, but much more expensive and therefore rare.
Women can expect it as the norm, and cheap. It might well turn out to be the cheapest way of treating a huge range of ailments. As such it will be priced by pharmaceutical company corporate accountants who plan for solid growth rather than the traditional one-off elixir-of-life premium.
Apart form this fabulous expense, earlier products in this category also had unpleasant side effects - like having your soul claimed by the devil and crumbling to dust in the seventh reel.

Women will grow to a great age and men will be reduced to mere flickers in their lives, helping (or hindering them) with their procreative phase - for a while.
Along with great age, women will gain wisdom; and experience; and wealth; and power. They will have the time to co-ordinate deep-laid, devious, long-term plots. In time, the world will be theirs.

Up to now, I have always believed that all conspiracy theorists were in fact remote-controlled robots operated by the secret services. However, when really old women start dominating politics, you can count me in. No-one currently alive can imagine the complexity and scope of the plots that will abound.

This, more than any other technological advance, is most likely to prove to be the salvation of the planet. The women will take over, sanity and logic will rule instead of testosterone and insecurity-fuelled madness. The world will run like a well-organised Christmas Dinner.

It's the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.

Cheers!