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?
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
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:
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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!!
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🧐?
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!
“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?
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
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!!
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.
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🧐?
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 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.
“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.