The longevity movement in wellness is what happens when existential dread gets a venture-capital budget. Our wealthiest friends are abandoning the spectacle of biohacking in favor of something much more controlled, more private, and far more rare. Silence, by many metrics, now behaves like capital, carrying at times what feels like the same gravity as a private island or a Picasso. This pivot did not happen overnight. It accelerated in the post-pandemic years, when excess finally began to feel gauche, and even the ultra-rich grew exhausted by constant exposure. Quiet luxury, once a fashion code, became a wellness philosophy. Logos disappeared, the real work moved offstage, so to speak, and the highest form of privilege became the ability to be unreachable. In this new hierarchy, silence, once thought of as equating emptiness, has been made into a scarce, curated resource. What today’s most discerning individuals are really purchasing is an..
