Hello everyone on the internets and I hope everyone is ready to have some fun and deal with some new ideas.
I've been thinking about starting this blog for awhile because I've noticed that some ideas on the internet and in the culture being generated by some very smart thinkers are not being responded to in the way they should. The folks I'm talking about are of course the Transhumanist/Posthumanist movement who are often on the internet talking about technology, economics, and politics.
I suppose my readers are wonder why I choose such a group as my targets as opposed to many other groups I generally oppose such as Neoconservatives, the New Left Liberals, Communists, Socialists, Classical Liberals, Neoconfederates, Globalists, Greens, Anarchists etc…etc… There are a lot people I can rag on so why Transhumanist?
I believe Transhumanism represents the best of contemporary Oligarchical thinking and unfortunately I feel that intellectually they are met with poorest quality of arguments against their positions and they represent a kind of optimism that many people honestly find attractive.
Ironically I share many of the views of as the Transhumanists in regards to pro-technology policies but I see effects of the policies being quite different than the Transhumanist.
I represent, albeit poorly, the tradition of the Christian Humanist Renaissance that started in the 14th century and I think did a great deal of good in elevating the conditions of human existence on this planet and hopefully someday further than that. Economically my thinking is closest to the American School who were generally called the “optimist school” as opposed to English School’s “Dismal science” so like many Transhumanist we share certain tendencies but I think that many bad ideas from English School have slowly made the “optimist school” into something that dangerous and quite at odds with the best scientific traditions and principles and forms of government.
And with that said let’s get started…
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