You nailed the disturbing part nicely, despite some familiarity with technocracy this added a skin crawling creepiness. The trans-humanist crowd are deeply disturbed and disconnected from reality... like they never got hugged or ran barefoot in the grass or soaked in a sunset or engaged in life beyond their own wishful thinking.. It's great to see them speak.. as individual personalities they are not the kind of folks you want to leave your kids with or even a dog.
That aside, the hubris is mind boggling... there's no bug free software and the gmo food supply is a disaster and people are way more complex than soybeans.. It's as if their modeling has become reality.. build it virtually it will be.. what pompous fools..
This is a very bad path that definitely needs to be derailed. I've got my fingers crossed & faith in collective human hearts & spirits to rise to the challenge and resist. Who's got a plan?
One thing that irritates me immensely about popular discourse over transhumanism is that it tends to focus on individual technological achievements, weaponizing gadget fetishism to advance an agenda.
So, what you end up with is a collection of different, isolated articles in scientific journals and magazines describing things like powered prosthetic limbs and brain-computer interfaces and how they represent wonderful advances in medical science and will eventually be used to treat paralysis, Parkinson's, and various other diseases. It makes people sound horrible for questioning it. Why would anyone want to prevent people from being cured?
None of those things, in isolation, is particularly questionable. But taken together, as part of a program of human enhancement, they form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Nowhere else is this more obvious than when tech-fetishists like Elon Musk start saying things like how we need to implant ourselves with brain-computer interfaces and merge with AI to avoid becoming obsolete. That's not a realistic social program. That's not anything like saying, you know, we need more bike paths and more recycling programs, or anything like that. It's an expression of faith. It's a philosophical proposition to radically restructure the human essence.
For that very reason, I decided from the start when writing this that I would focus primarily on the philosophical basis of transhumanism and its warped eschatology, instead of specific technologies underlying it.
"Nowhere else is this more obvious than when tech-fetishists like Elon Musk start saying things like how we need to implant ourselves with brain-computer interfaces and merge with AI to avoid becoming obsolete."
Maybe too much practical old timer in me but more impressive than bold futuristic tech to hack a human brain show me someone who can hack the Pentagon's books & find the $34 trillion in taxpayer dollars gone missing.
"None of those things, in isolation, is particularly questionable. But taken together, as part of a program of human enhancement, they form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts."
For me this has a striking parallel with gmo crops and unsurprisingly includes many of the same cheerleaders. Knowledge suffers from a silo effect with the narrowest area of understanding and no context at all for the holistic ecosystem.
Much of the early Internet activism focused on liberating collective brainpower and Aaron Swartz an early indicator of its threat. Mediating symptoms is mistaken for finding problem sources or cures. The "intelligence community" uses compartmentalized structure for operational security and centralize control. What if it's used in media and education?
"For that very reason, I decided from the start when writing this that I would focus primarily on the philosophical basis of transhumanism and its warped eschatology, instead of specific technologies underlying it."
Great strategic chioce in my estimation. Maybe it's more easily seen w Mother Nature v Biotech Spray Nozzle Saviors yielding Superweeds and Super-bugs and sickest population in human history in year 25 of America's population wide, gmo feeding trial. Economic pressures and supply chain issues are driving huge gardening boom and homegrown will impact health and self reliance in a way that should make the technocrat methods and threat easier to grasp and oppose.
Gotta go down that way my age of Aquarius is long overdue. :~)
"Economic pressures and supply chain issues are driving huge gardening boom and homegrown will impact health and self reliance in a way that should make the technocrat methods and threat easier to grasp and oppose."
God, I hope so! Signs of this? I feel as if I'm the only one in my neighborhood doing it.
"I feel as if I'm the only one in my neighborhood doing it."
Far from alone perhaps an inspiration to an unenlightened pocket.
2022 Trends to Watch Out For: Sustainable Gardening
The pandemic has brought millions of new gardeners to the hobby—over 18 million, in fact—and independent garden centers are keen on keeping interest in gardening alive.
There has been a surge of people interested in growing their own food. Oregon State University's Master Gardener program noticed this, and made their online vegetable gardening course free through the end of April. Their post on Facebook was shared more than 21,000 times.
"We're being flooded with vegetable orders," says George Ball, executive chairman of the Burpee Seed Company, based in Warminster, Penn.
Ball says he has noticed spikes in seed sales during bad times: the stock market crash of 1987, the dotcom bubble burst of 2000, and he remembers the two oil crises of the 1970s from his childhood. But he says he has not seen a spike this large and widespread.
I'm among this crop of new gardeners. I've only been gardening a couple months and already have tomatoes coming along nicely. I never thought I would become a gardener!
I've also mostly stopped buying fruits & vegetables at the grocery store and now purchase from local organic farms.
Next step is raising some small livestock, rabbits & quails.
Awesome, wait until you discover preserves, pickling & canning with the beautiful jars of freshly harvested fruits and veggies.. boozy summer fruit in winter pies.. yummmy!
No this is a part of the necessary insights we share. We must define events and fellow humans as we see them. We’ve been fascinated and horrified at the idea the vaccines may contain Graphene Oxide. Anyone (including this writer) writing of these (mRNA, Graphene together in the vaccines) received honorary degrees from social media - lifetime expulsion.
And by 2022 we still have difficulty understanding if Graphene is in the vaccines. However the presence of it in these is quite revealing. They censor what they fear.
I don’t disagree. My laugh emojis are more a reflection of my existential ennui.
There is really no shortage of information out there (I too have written about the graphene issue) but people have to be willing to look at it. That’s where the mental block is and where all our problems are.
Certainly. Maybe we’ll all see our culture & world move through these mental blocks. Truth always comes out. Propaganda doesn’t work for more than a short while and then destroys what created it. Cheers.
Titanism is an extreme form of humanism that does not recognize that there are limits to what humans can become and what they should do. The Greek Titans were known for their boundless pride (hubris) and for their violence. Titanism is humanism gone berserk; it is anthropocentricism and anthropomorphism taken to their limits. The Titan insists that human experience is the norm. Titans deliberately reverse the positions of humanity and divinity; they take over divine prerogatives, and as a result of their hubris, they lose sight of their proper place in the universe. This book will define a deity as any being who is omniscient, omnipotent, infinite, and omnipresent. We maintain that a human being is a spiritual Titan by claiming any or all of these attributes. Even if there is no God, humans obviously delude themselves if they believe they can become divine in the sense of these attributes.
Asian Titanism has expressed itself almost exclusively in an internal, spiritual way; therefore, one can say that it is a rather benign form of extreme humanism. By contrast, the expressions of Western Titanism are primarily external, and with the aid of technology, a Titanistic spirit can be said to inspire militarism, environmental pollution and degradation, and the possible misuse of genetic engineering. If left unchecked, the Titanistic spirit might destroy or radically change life as we know it on earth. Even though it is Western Titanism that poses the real threat, it is essential to show that Eastern Titans share some of the same views as their Western counterparts, viz., anthropocentrism and autonomous selfhood. Some Indian views of self--particularly the Sankhya-Yoga and Jainism--express a view of human autonomy just as extreme as Western existentialism. Therefore, early Indian and Western philosophy share a basic conceptual bond that has been rarely discerned or mentioned. https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/315/Titanism.htm
Indeed. Liberal humanism is increasingly headed in this direction, and blindly. Many people involved in state bureaucracy are incrementalists and do not understand the systems of radical social change that they are inadvertently supporting by shielding the Overclass from the lower classes.
While the professional-managerial class "adults in the room" link hands and form a wall, holding back the populist wave, the rich scheme up in their ivory towers, with their vials of bubbling purple potions, howling "I will become a god!"
https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-marxism-created-the-west/ The Marxist idea blends smoothly with Technocracy. Long before it became obvious, Del Noce wrote that “the alliance between the technocratic right and the cultural left is there for everyone to see.” He argued that liberalism “sublimated,” or absorbed, various aspects of Marxism, transforming into what he called “the technological society.” Bourgeois society always had two historical enemies: revolutionary thought and religious thought. As a synthesis of these opposites, Marxism provided bourgeois society with the tool needed to defeat both. Our society largely embraces Marx’s historical vision: advancing technologies are viewed as de facto proof that the question of God, and all transcendent values, are irrelevant. Yet this vision of history is also turned onto Marxism itself. Communism was tried and it was a failed experiment. The technological society does not have to enlist any religious or moral claims to reject Communism. It simply dismisses Communism as inefficient.
The Leninist path of Marxism also stumbles through our society in a misshapen form. Del Noce argued that Leninism unleashed a type of post-Christian gnosticism — which was an early Christian heresy that believed the world was evil and could only be saved by those with access to secret or esoteric knowledge. Lenin believed that the revolution wouldn’t just happen spontaneously — it had to be brought about by raising the consciousness of the proletariat. This required “professional revolutionaries”. Drawn from the people tasked with the job of modernising the Russian economy, these revolutionaries were an elect class that understands how the world “really” works. The British writer H.G. Wells understood the implications of this better than Lenin himself: in his 1928 book The Open Conspiracy, inspired by his trips to the Soviet Union, Wells called for the West to embrace rule by its own elect class of “experts.”
Basically, a technocrat is a busybody communist that uses science as cover for their need to control. It's just a high-tech variation of the central planning theme.
I wrote about the prototypical technocrat in The Grand Inquisitor: How Dostoyevsky Predicted The Bolshevik Revolution & The 4th Industrial Revolution:
Thank you!! A wonderful analysis!! And as someone who has been screaming from the rooftop about Big Tech philosophy and transhumanism for years (notably, almost no one cared until 2020), I'd like to offer more context. Hopefully helpful!
And I think the next step after realizing that this is really being attempted is refusing to be intimidated and connecting to our humanity in earnest!!
Oh, and also... poor man's "immortality" (literally for the poor, and also literally a double scam) is selling the concept of "digital twin" as becoming immortal, as if "being data" is the same as "being alive." I am stunned by the boldness!!
Transhumanists as you describe them are already circling Perdition's drain, if not down the tubes already. Their bodies just keep on going for a little while, miserable that their minds are exerting tremendous oxidative damage because of their antipathies and fears.
I haven't barely reached David's fabled threescore and ten years and know I don't want to live forever with my soul the way it is, substrate-independent or no. Why the hell would I want that?
What a read Spartacus! Great insight. I didn’t know whether to do the sign of the cross , recite the Lords Prayer or yell out Namaste. Excellent and thank you. ☮️✝️☪️🕉☯️🕎🛐🔯☦️
"This is the position that the technocrat starts from; one of extreme nihilism where nothing is meaningful due to the intractability of the mind-body problem. This, of course, necessitates that the technocrat become a godlike being,..."
Why can't those amongst us who wish to be transhuman simply declares themselves as such, like their transgender equivalents. Sorted - without fucking up the future for the rest of us.
Spartacus, my last 2 call shifts at the hospital(ob/gyn), I have noticed patients with not only anxiety but almost hysteria with the inability to talk them down through discussion and education. Wtf is going on ?? Interesting substack discussion🧐?
It could be stress from, quite literally, being exposed to the effects of prolonged psychological warfare (we are all suffering from this to varying degrees). Did they offer any explanations/background on their condition that might identify a reason for their anxiety? I understand if you can't be too specific. HIPAA and all that.
Well, that would certainly be cause for anxiety. I've been hearing all sorts of things about COVID-19 vaccines, fertility, and childbirth that don't sound good at all.
Some of these people like Harari seem sort of autistic or neurally damaged. I often wonder if they are indeed brain damaged from the chemical soup we live in or whether they’ve had too many vaccines containing aluminum, mercury, and the like. Mad hatters, they seem to me. I’ve read that Buddhists recommend meditating on your own skeletal remains lying before you and smile gently and breathe quietly as you imagine that skeleton, resting before you. Maybe that would quiet their terror if they could get accustomed to thinking about their eventual demise and being ok with it. You know, “be here now” and all that!
These are the fruits of postmodernism and nihilism; an entire generation who define themselves not by what they love the most, but by what they fear the most.
I read a novel once where the protagonist ended up cast into hell. There were no devils there, no fires, no torture. Hell was simply being alone with yourself. Forever.
“Our lives are so depressing and empty and unfulfilling these days, we’ve resorted to drugging ourselves with benzos and SSRIs en masse while begging our brains for a few drops of serotonin so we can go about our daily lives in peace.”
Mainly because so many have had the tragic error pounded into their heads that life is nothing but unrelenting toil under a merciless sun culminating in the pitiless doom of eternal oblivion.
You nailed the disturbing part nicely, despite some familiarity with technocracy this added a skin crawling creepiness. The trans-humanist crowd are deeply disturbed and disconnected from reality... like they never got hugged or ran barefoot in the grass or soaked in a sunset or engaged in life beyond their own wishful thinking.. It's great to see them speak.. as individual personalities they are not the kind of folks you want to leave your kids with or even a dog.
That aside, the hubris is mind boggling... there's no bug free software and the gmo food supply is a disaster and people are way more complex than soybeans.. It's as if their modeling has become reality.. build it virtually it will be.. what pompous fools..
This is a very bad path that definitely needs to be derailed. I've got my fingers crossed & faith in collective human hearts & spirits to rise to the challenge and resist. Who's got a plan?
One thing that irritates me immensely about popular discourse over transhumanism is that it tends to focus on individual technological achievements, weaponizing gadget fetishism to advance an agenda.
So, what you end up with is a collection of different, isolated articles in scientific journals and magazines describing things like powered prosthetic limbs and brain-computer interfaces and how they represent wonderful advances in medical science and will eventually be used to treat paralysis, Parkinson's, and various other diseases. It makes people sound horrible for questioning it. Why would anyone want to prevent people from being cured?
None of those things, in isolation, is particularly questionable. But taken together, as part of a program of human enhancement, they form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Nowhere else is this more obvious than when tech-fetishists like Elon Musk start saying things like how we need to implant ourselves with brain-computer interfaces and merge with AI to avoid becoming obsolete. That's not a realistic social program. That's not anything like saying, you know, we need more bike paths and more recycling programs, or anything like that. It's an expression of faith. It's a philosophical proposition to radically restructure the human essence.
For that very reason, I decided from the start when writing this that I would focus primarily on the philosophical basis of transhumanism and its warped eschatology, instead of specific technologies underlying it.
"Nowhere else is this more obvious than when tech-fetishists like Elon Musk start saying things like how we need to implant ourselves with brain-computer interfaces and merge with AI to avoid becoming obsolete."
Maybe too much practical old timer in me but more impressive than bold futuristic tech to hack a human brain show me someone who can hack the Pentagon's books & find the $34 trillion in taxpayer dollars gone missing.
"None of those things, in isolation, is particularly questionable. But taken together, as part of a program of human enhancement, they form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts."
For me this has a striking parallel with gmo crops and unsurprisingly includes many of the same cheerleaders. Knowledge suffers from a silo effect with the narrowest area of understanding and no context at all for the holistic ecosystem.
Much of the early Internet activism focused on liberating collective brainpower and Aaron Swartz an early indicator of its threat. Mediating symptoms is mistaken for finding problem sources or cures. The "intelligence community" uses compartmentalized structure for operational security and centralize control. What if it's used in media and education?
"For that very reason, I decided from the start when writing this that I would focus primarily on the philosophical basis of transhumanism and its warped eschatology, instead of specific technologies underlying it."
Great strategic chioce in my estimation. Maybe it's more easily seen w Mother Nature v Biotech Spray Nozzle Saviors yielding Superweeds and Super-bugs and sickest population in human history in year 25 of America's population wide, gmo feeding trial. Economic pressures and supply chain issues are driving huge gardening boom and homegrown will impact health and self reliance in a way that should make the technocrat methods and threat easier to grasp and oppose.
Gotta go down that way my age of Aquarius is long overdue. :~)
"Economic pressures and supply chain issues are driving huge gardening boom and homegrown will impact health and self reliance in a way that should make the technocrat methods and threat easier to grasp and oppose."
God, I hope so! Signs of this? I feel as if I'm the only one in my neighborhood doing it.
"I feel as if I'm the only one in my neighborhood doing it."
Far from alone perhaps an inspiration to an unenlightened pocket.
2022 Trends to Watch Out For: Sustainable Gardening
The pandemic has brought millions of new gardeners to the hobby—over 18 million, in fact—and independent garden centers are keen on keeping interest in gardening alive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220131013846/https://gardencentershow.com/inspirations/2022-trends-to-watch-out-for-sustainable-gardening
NPR March 2020
There has been a surge of people interested in growing their own food. Oregon State University's Master Gardener program noticed this, and made their online vegetable gardening course free through the end of April. Their post on Facebook was shared more than 21,000 times.
"We're being flooded with vegetable orders," says George Ball, executive chairman of the Burpee Seed Company, based in Warminster, Penn.
Ball says he has noticed spikes in seed sales during bad times: the stock market crash of 1987, the dotcom bubble burst of 2000, and he remembers the two oil crises of the 1970s from his childhood. But he says he has not seen a spike this large and widespread.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200327210633/https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/27/822514756/fearing-shortages-people-are-planting-more-vegetable-gardens
I'm among this crop of new gardeners. I've only been gardening a couple months and already have tomatoes coming along nicely. I never thought I would become a gardener!
I've also mostly stopped buying fruits & vegetables at the grocery store and now purchase from local organic farms.
Next step is raising some small livestock, rabbits & quails.
Awesome, wait until you discover preserves, pickling & canning with the beautiful jars of freshly harvested fruits and veggies.. boozy summer fruit in winter pies.. yummmy!
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing! 18 million is a lot!
100%
And I think you brilliantly, in so many words, Pointed out that psychopathy is difficult to separate from deep delusion.
It’s important to remember that Jim Jones drank his own Kool Aid 👀
When every aspect of the human condition is treated as a disease that must be "cured", it opens the door to some really horrifying things.
That’s it. What they propose is hopelessly complex and will never work in a million years.
The graphene (if the vaccines contain it) “neural laces” won’t do anything except give people prion disease and blood clots. 🤣
Mendacious and deeply disturbed idiots, the lot. Unable to see what’s obvious to any common fool.
There is nothing new under the sun.
No this is a part of the necessary insights we share. We must define events and fellow humans as we see them. We’ve been fascinated and horrified at the idea the vaccines may contain Graphene Oxide. Anyone (including this writer) writing of these (mRNA, Graphene together in the vaccines) received honorary degrees from social media - lifetime expulsion.
And by 2022 we still have difficulty understanding if Graphene is in the vaccines. However the presence of it in these is quite revealing. They censor what they fear.
I don’t disagree. My laugh emojis are more a reflection of my existential ennui.
There is really no shortage of information out there (I too have written about the graphene issue) but people have to be willing to look at it. That’s where the mental block is and where all our problems are.
Certainly. Maybe we’ll all see our culture & world move through these mental blocks. Truth always comes out. Propaganda doesn’t work for more than a short while and then destroys what created it. Cheers.
Sanity is in short supply. Real plans forward lost in fog of war. World Mythology holds many keys.
These folks badly need a major psychedelic trip to straighten them out.
Titanism is an extreme form of humanism that does not recognize that there are limits to what humans can become and what they should do. The Greek Titans were known for their boundless pride (hubris) and for their violence. Titanism is humanism gone berserk; it is anthropocentricism and anthropomorphism taken to their limits. The Titan insists that human experience is the norm. Titans deliberately reverse the positions of humanity and divinity; they take over divine prerogatives, and as a result of their hubris, they lose sight of their proper place in the universe. This book will define a deity as any being who is omniscient, omnipotent, infinite, and omnipresent. We maintain that a human being is a spiritual Titan by claiming any or all of these attributes. Even if there is no God, humans obviously delude themselves if they believe they can become divine in the sense of these attributes.
Asian Titanism has expressed itself almost exclusively in an internal, spiritual way; therefore, one can say that it is a rather benign form of extreme humanism. By contrast, the expressions of Western Titanism are primarily external, and with the aid of technology, a Titanistic spirit can be said to inspire militarism, environmental pollution and degradation, and the possible misuse of genetic engineering. If left unchecked, the Titanistic spirit might destroy or radically change life as we know it on earth. Even though it is Western Titanism that poses the real threat, it is essential to show that Eastern Titans share some of the same views as their Western counterparts, viz., anthropocentrism and autonomous selfhood. Some Indian views of self--particularly the Sankhya-Yoga and Jainism--express a view of human autonomy just as extreme as Western existentialism. Therefore, early Indian and Western philosophy share a basic conceptual bond that has been rarely discerned or mentioned. https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/315/Titanism.htm
Indeed. Liberal humanism is increasingly headed in this direction, and blindly. Many people involved in state bureaucracy are incrementalists and do not understand the systems of radical social change that they are inadvertently supporting by shielding the Overclass from the lower classes.
While the professional-managerial class "adults in the room" link hands and form a wall, holding back the populist wave, the rich scheme up in their ivory towers, with their vials of bubbling purple potions, howling "I will become a god!"
https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-marxism-created-the-west/ The Marxist idea blends smoothly with Technocracy. Long before it became obvious, Del Noce wrote that “the alliance between the technocratic right and the cultural left is there for everyone to see.” He argued that liberalism “sublimated,” or absorbed, various aspects of Marxism, transforming into what he called “the technological society.” Bourgeois society always had two historical enemies: revolutionary thought and religious thought. As a synthesis of these opposites, Marxism provided bourgeois society with the tool needed to defeat both. Our society largely embraces Marx’s historical vision: advancing technologies are viewed as de facto proof that the question of God, and all transcendent values, are irrelevant. Yet this vision of history is also turned onto Marxism itself. Communism was tried and it was a failed experiment. The technological society does not have to enlist any religious or moral claims to reject Communism. It simply dismisses Communism as inefficient.
The Leninist path of Marxism also stumbles through our society in a misshapen form. Del Noce argued that Leninism unleashed a type of post-Christian gnosticism — which was an early Christian heresy that believed the world was evil and could only be saved by those with access to secret or esoteric knowledge. Lenin believed that the revolution wouldn’t just happen spontaneously — it had to be brought about by raising the consciousness of the proletariat. This required “professional revolutionaries”. Drawn from the people tasked with the job of modernising the Russian economy, these revolutionaries were an elect class that understands how the world “really” works. The British writer H.G. Wells understood the implications of this better than Lenin himself: in his 1928 book The Open Conspiracy, inspired by his trips to the Soviet Union, Wells called for the West to embrace rule by its own elect class of “experts.”
Excellent, thanks. Would be great to tie in Native American mythology also. So many myths and texts, so little time.
Basically, a technocrat is a busybody communist that uses science as cover for their need to control. It's just a high-tech variation of the central planning theme.
I wrote about the prototypical technocrat in The Grand Inquisitor: How Dostoyevsky Predicted The Bolshevik Revolution & The 4th Industrial Revolution:
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/the-grand-inquisitor-how-dostoyevsky?s=w
Thank you!! A wonderful analysis!! And as someone who has been screaming from the rooftop about Big Tech philosophy and transhumanism for years (notably, almost no one cared until 2020), I'd like to offer more context. Hopefully helpful!
A story about the mind of a technocrat, republished by techocracy.com https://www.technocracy.news/what-drives-the-mind-of-a-technocrat/
The Great Reset for Dummies (from 2020)
https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies?s=w
And I think the next step after realizing that this is really being attempted is refusing to be intimidated and connecting to our humanity in earnest!!
Oh, and also... poor man's "immortality" (literally for the poor, and also literally a double scam) is selling the concept of "digital twin" as becoming immortal, as if "being data" is the same as "being alive." I am stunned by the boldness!!
Transhumanists as you describe them are already circling Perdition's drain, if not down the tubes already. Their bodies just keep on going for a little while, miserable that their minds are exerting tremendous oxidative damage because of their antipathies and fears.
I haven't barely reached David's fabled threescore and ten years and know I don't want to live forever with my soul the way it is, substrate-independent or no. Why the hell would I want that?
Thanks for the fascinating writing.
What a read Spartacus! Great insight. I didn’t know whether to do the sign of the cross , recite the Lords Prayer or yell out Namaste. Excellent and thank you. ☮️✝️☪️🕉☯️🕎🛐🔯☦️
"This is the position that the technocrat starts from; one of extreme nihilism where nothing is meaningful due to the intractability of the mind-body problem. This, of course, necessitates that the technocrat become a godlike being,..."
boom. thank you. postmodernism in a nutshell.
toby rogers did a hilarious piece on postmodernism as disease - literally https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/foucaults-crooked-smile
Why can't those amongst us who wish to be transhuman simply declares themselves as such, like their transgender equivalents. Sorted - without fucking up the future for the rest of us.
They need human guinea pigs to experiment on until they figure out how to upload their minds into some permanent substrate.
Spartacus, my last 2 call shifts at the hospital(ob/gyn), I have noticed patients with not only anxiety but almost hysteria with the inability to talk them down through discussion and education. Wtf is going on ?? Interesting substack discussion🧐?
It could be stress from, quite literally, being exposed to the effects of prolonged psychological warfare (we are all suffering from this to varying degrees). Did they offer any explanations/background on their condition that might identify a reason for their anxiety? I understand if you can't be too specific. HIPAA and all that.
Spartacus spotting, pregnant and vaxed. Maybe they are realizing the jab is not what the doctor told them.
Well, that would certainly be cause for anxiety. I've been hearing all sorts of things about COVID-19 vaccines, fertility, and childbirth that don't sound good at all.
Still cannot understand why people would take something that hasn’t been tested.
An utterly brilliant essay, humorous (in a Douglas Adams inspired manner) and terrifying in equal measure. Thank you. It has stirred my soul.
Some of these people like Harari seem sort of autistic or neurally damaged. I often wonder if they are indeed brain damaged from the chemical soup we live in or whether they’ve had too many vaccines containing aluminum, mercury, and the like. Mad hatters, they seem to me. I’ve read that Buddhists recommend meditating on your own skeletal remains lying before you and smile gently and breathe quietly as you imagine that skeleton, resting before you. Maybe that would quiet their terror if they could get accustomed to thinking about their eventual demise and being ok with it. You know, “be here now” and all that!
These are the fruits of postmodernism and nihilism; an entire generation who define themselves not by what they love the most, but by what they fear the most.
From nymusicdaily elsewhere in this thread:
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/foucaults-crooked-smile
Yes! A gracious thank you again, Spartacus.
These people are Nuts. Trying to do what God can....soon to find out they can't...
Great read Spartacus.
Here's the youtube playlist I compiled of the videos linked here (and a few musical selections at the end, haha).
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtnY-v-bJe08KdqUrZiPUIvI7curGss2
The transhumanists are essentially proposing that one would be happy in a universe of one ( as in 1).
Your entire world would be only your own thoughts.
Pretty egotistical and boring I would imagine.
But then perhaps I enjoy interacting with other pieces of meat.
I read a novel once where the protagonist ended up cast into hell. There were no devils there, no fires, no torture. Hell was simply being alone with yourself. Forever.
“Our lives are so depressing and empty and unfulfilling these days, we’ve resorted to drugging ourselves with benzos and SSRIs en masse while begging our brains for a few drops of serotonin so we can go about our daily lives in peace.”
Mainly because so many have had the tragic error pounded into their heads that life is nothing but unrelenting toil under a merciless sun culminating in the pitiless doom of eternal oblivion.
But it ain’t necessarily so.