Anti-aging influencer and tech millionaire Bryan Johnson once again stirred debate with a post rejecting the notion that his strict anti-aging regimen means he has s \u201cforgotten how to live.\u201d Johnson, who is often told he should \u201clive a little,\u201d argued that this sentiment reflects a deeper cultural psychology \u2014 one where society masks its fear of death through rituals of indulgence and distraction. In a long post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Johnson described that how routine behaviours such as vaping, drinking, indulgence in fast food, binge-watching and gambling are framed as signs of living fully, but in reality they serve as group rituals to suppress existential anxiety. \u201cNo one will die alone if everyone is dying together and all agree to call it living,\u201d he wrote, suggesting that conformity to these rituals normalises short\u2011term pleasure at the expense of long\u2011term vitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anti-aging influencer and tech millionaire Bryan Johnson once again stirred debate with a post rejecting the notion that his strict anti-aging regimen means he has s \u201cforgotten how to live.\u201d Johnson, who is often told he should \u201clive a little,\u201d argued that this sentiment reflects a deeper cultural psychology \u2014 one where society masks its fear of death through rituals of indulgence and distraction. In a long post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Johnson described that how routine behaviours such as vaping, drinking, indulgence in fast food, binge-watching and gambling are framed as signs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020524,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020523\/revisions\/1020524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}