Why Transhumanism Would Result in Stultifying Sameness
Dove
This ad has been around awhile, but I think it punctures the transhumanists' naive presumption that the post human future would be wildly individualistic and iconoclastic. I believe the opposite would be true. Just as today we are herded by social pressures and corporate advertisements into a conformist mindset--what my friend Ralph Nader calls "thinking corporate"--so too would we be pushed toward a stultifying sameness if transhumanists "seized control of human evolution." Only rather than being literally skin deep, as is true today with cosmetics and fashion, the sheep-like sameness would be implanted deep within our biological beings. Baaaa.
HT: Mark Pickup
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 11:10 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Wesley,
I've been meaning to ask - where did you get that favourite pejorative quote of yours "seize control" of evolution? Is it a James Hughes quote, perhaps? It's certainly not a turn of phrase I'd use - it sounds like the vocabulary of Marxist revolutionaries...
Simon Young
www.worldtranshumanistsociety.com
Hi, Simon. I think it was Gregory Stock's book *Redesigning Humans.* "We know that Homo sapiens is not the final word in primate evolution, but few have yet grasped that we are on the cusp of profound biological change, poised to transcend our current form and character on a journey to destinations of new imagination... But give these emerging technologies a decade and they will be the cutting edge of human biological change. These developments will write a new page in the history of life, allowing us to seize control of our evolutionary future."
Mr. Smith-- does that sound like the opening to the next X-man movie to you?
Yes. I think that is part of the transhumanist fantasy, actually. Thanks, foxfier, formerly sailorette.
Don't need the whole title.
*embarrassed*
Merging my online personalities.
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