Transhumanism is a futuristic philosophy which celebrates the potential of advanced technologies to augment human functioning to unprecedented degrees, ushering in a new phase of ‘posthuman’ evolution. Some trans‐humanists even regard digital technologies as capable of ‘re‐enchanting’ the world. Such visions of ‘cyberspace as sacred space’ conceal many value‐judgments, however, not least in the universalisation of a metaphysics of technoscience founded on longings for invulnerability, incorporeality and omniscience. Such propensities cloak ideologies of technocratic consumerism that refuse to engage with the global implications of new technologies. A theologically‐derived critique not only exposes the ideology of ‘transcendence’ at the heart of transhumanism, but also challenges its claim to represent a latter‐day Nietzschean sensibility.
– Elaine Graham, ‘Nietzsche Gets a Modem’: Transhumanism and the Technological Sublime, Oxford University Press.
Are you even aware of how technology oppresses you instead of liberates you?
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You need Television – How else will you know what to think?
You need Cell Phones – How else will you be tracked, documented, and sometimes, communicate?
You need Facebook – How else will you be tracked, documented, and sometimes, communicate?
Everything is bugged, everything is tracked – there is no privacy.
As more information is collected about you, you can be controlled even more, by even more subtle and devious means.
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You need these technologies because they own you.
They control you.
This is what "The Matrix" was trying to warn you about.
Don't you remember that movie?
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The spell is so strong … I do not even know where to begin to try and break the trance … Why would you want to be tracked so your movements, actions, and even your intermost personal thoughts can be manipulated to make you more passive, obedient slaves? You do not want that, but, by your actions, you desire to be controlled. This is not the type of fascism in World War II where you could see who was controlling you – this is the worst kind; the kind where you are begging for more glittery gadgets that control you more and more in ways you are not even aware of.
The advancement of technology has not kept pace with our ability to discern its proper use. The results are proving to be disasterous as more and more are put under a GLAMOUR SPELL ; you consume what the Illuminati-Controlled Media and Illuminati-Controlled Corporations tell you to consume; thereby putting you under their spell. You spill your private thoughts and private moments for the world to see. This allows for those at the Top of the Pyramid to try and manipulate you even more; they have the weapon on information. What do you have? You have NOTHING – you are an obedient SLAVE who does what you are told by the tyranny of 'Group Think'.
Lord Help Us!
(10) Ten let the countdown begin
(9) I was born in the mind
(8) Take the head of a snake
(7) Behold Armageddon
(6) Ain't no love for the rich
(5) Only strong will survive
(4) Cause we live by the sword
(3) Plus sixty degrees
(2) For the black and the blue
(1) For the sun.. step into millennium
– Method Man, Judgement Day
Interesting
Everyone always expects disasters,and blames everything on the "masons" and "reptiles" that control the world,But I have been saying for many,many years,that we will be the cause of our extinction and it will come by way of over technologying ourselves to death.
Just my thoughts.
Hi Green Moon.
I've never heard of Transhumanism till now. So your blog here has been somewhat educational for me. Thanks for that. 🙂
As for being tracked through technology…….for myself, I refuse to give into paranoia. Its almost a personal motto for me. "Fear helps no one". So if the gov't wants to track me that's fine. I don't care. Kicking in my door just leads to an introduction to my sword. Knocking on my door would tend to be preferable to most.
Good blog Green Thanks.
QUOTED DIRECTLY FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Source – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Project MKUltra was the code name of a U.S. government covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and "officially halted" in 1973.[1] The program engaged in many illegal activities;[2][3][4][5] in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.[6][7][8][9] MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.[10]
The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies.[11] The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement.[12]
Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress, and a Gerald Ford commission to investigate CIA activities within the United States. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.[13]
In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings later that same year.[7] In July 2001 some surviving information regarding MKUltra was officially declassified.
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Although the CIA insists that MKUltra-type experiments have been abandoned, some CIA observers say there is little reason to believe it does not continue today under a different set of acronyms.[46] 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKUltra was abandoned a "cover story."[82][83]