The Longevity Revolution "We are the first generation of the senior dominance. The beneficiaries of a revolution in life-extending medicine and public health, we enter the second half of our lives possessed of more political influence, greater wealth, and more vitality than any older generation before us. The values we choose to live by cannot help but be a commanding influence in shaping the century to come. Age so empowered is a new historical phase. To that degree, those of us whose role it is to define the cultural themes of that phase are a New People. The responsibility and the adventure of that role are only beginning to dawn upon us as we pause to take stock of ourselves now that parenting and career- building fade into the past. More than merely surviving, we will find ourselves gifted with the wits, political savvy, and the sheer weight of numbers to become a major force for change... We may live to see wisdom become a distinct political possibility, and compassion the reigning social ethic... Longevity, when it embraces so many, cannot help but be a great maker of history. The aging of the American public is not some stroke of unaccountable bad luck. Although nobody seemed to notice it until the day before yesterday, ALL industrial societies are aging with the momentum of biological necessity. They have to age. That is the logic of progress. And that is the main thing we must understand about longevity. It is inevitable and good... It has given this remarkable generation the chance to do great good against great odds."
--Theodore Roszak,
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