Colbert takes the gloves off on Trump

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Re: Colbert takes the gloves off on Trump

Post by heydaralon » Thu May 11, 2017 3:02 pm

Transhumanism has picked up the eugenics baton at the moment. Im not terribly impressed with their ideology, even though some transhumanists dress it very seductively. Its just another Utopian project.
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Re: Colbert takes the gloves off on Trump

Post by jbird4049 » Thu May 11, 2017 8:19 pm

heydaralon wrote:Transhumanism has picked up the eugenics baton at the moment. Im not terribly impressed with their ideology, even though some transhumanists dress it very seductively. Its just another Utopian project.
What? Khan Noonien Singh or Gattaca stuff or something really freaky like the Borg Collective?
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Re: Colbert takes the gloves off on Trump

Post by heydaralon » Thu May 11, 2017 8:23 pm

This is a very biased op ed on it.
https://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/08/transhumanisms/

There are plenty of prominent Transhumanists that essentially argue for eugenics though.
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Re: Colbert takes the gloves off on Trump

Post by jbird4049 » Thu May 11, 2017 8:39 pm

heydaralon wrote:This is a very biased op ed on it.
https://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/08/transhumanisms/

There are plenty of prominent Transhumanists that essentially argue for eugenics though.
Oh my, the writer really, really does not like it.

I do see how eugenicists could find a new home. Lovely The bit about licensing parenthood is just sterilization by another name. It's also a corruption magnet.

It's so easy to do a little reading to see how this ends.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.