are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he’s hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?
turns out i wasn’t making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called “The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty”, so cats are kind of his thing.
apparently, cats’ kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body’s ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.
“Being too conscious is a disease, a real and total disease. Ordinary human consciousness would easily satisfy man’s daily needs – that is, half or a quarter less than is apportioned to the developed man… It would have been completely sufficient, for example, to have the kind of consciousness with which all the so-called spontaneous people and men of action live.”
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