Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics – Evolution News

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Transhumanism, boiled down to its bones, is pure eugenics. It calls itself H+, for more or better than human. Which, of course, is what eugenics is all about.

Alarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. That being so, it is worth listening in to what they are saying under the theory that forewarned is forearmed.

Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of themovements chief proselytizers.He believes that AI/human hybrids are inevitably going to take over and that those of us who refuse to join our minds with these computer programs will come to be considered a useless class, or even, useless people.From theMiami Standardstory:

Harari went on to say that humanity is in the midst of a second industrial revolution centered around artificial intelligence. But the product this time will not be textiles, or machines, or vehicles, or even weapons, the product this time will be humans themselves, Harari asserted. We are basically learning to produce bodies and minds. Bodies and minds are going to be I think the two main products of the next wave of all these changes.

The useless people referenced by the WEF advisor would be those who refuse to be injected with artificial intelligence capabilities in the coming decades. Describing humans as hackable animals, Harari believes that the masses would not stand much of a chance against these changes even if they were to organize.

Ah, the old resistance is futile gambit.

What will happen to useless people?

The problem is more boredom, what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless, Harari continued. My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.

It is tempting to fall prey to such nihilism. But resistance is not futile if we continually remind ourselves that no human life is ever meaningless or worthless. And even if Harari is right that we will eventually devolve into a Brave New World caste system, the unenhanced still would retain the most important and powerful human characteristic of all: the ability to love.

Love isnt something that transhumanists generally talk much about. I think thats because it cant be generated by taking a pill, editing genes, or melding with a computer algorithm. It isnt transactional. The ability to love comes from being loved and practicing the virtues. No high-tech shortcuts. How boring.

This is transhumanisms fatal flaw. To paraphrase a great saint, If I blend with an AI computer program and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have enhanced capacities that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Editors note: For more on Yuval Harari, see Casey Luskins multi-part review of Hararis book Sapiens.

Cross-posted at The Corner.

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