Rich Roll
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But like, let's check in in five years.
It's a, it's a sports version of being red pilled.
It's indicative of this cultural paradigm shift towards transhumanism on some level.
Like it's a baby step in that direction.
What Brian Johnson is doing in longevity, these athletes are doing in a performance athletic context.
But the point is the same.
How do we leverage breakthroughs in technology to become more human, superhuman?
There's a really great podcast series called
on the enhanced games by this GQ writer called Superhuman.
And he goes through all of it, including the ethical considerations.
If you're interested in this, you should definitely check it out.
But it is emblematic of this moment in which
We've lost our footing in terms of like virtue and ethics and our kind of traditional sense of morality.
Like that's out the window.
What's important is how you look and it doesn't matter what you needed to do to achieve that goal.
All that matters is that you got it and you got it as quickly as possible as opposed to
kind of the whole reason we engage with sport to begin with, which is this virtuous thing where we have respect for our competitors and we have respect for ourselves.