saw yet another ‘transhumanism is christian eschatology for rich white male anti-poor technolibertarian sci-fi geeks’
do you even know what christian eschatology is like
do you even know what sci-fi is like
rich, white, male, no. anti-poor, no. christian, no.
sci-fi, yes. sci-fi is an endlessly evolving conversation of desires and anxieties and predictions and ideas, taking place over a century of fiction and essays and becoming more and more diverse as it goes.
do you know where transhumanism is characterized as a rich white silicon valley thing, obsessed with becoming one with a god-AI? the news. because the news is obsessed with silicon valley, they’re obsessed with rich people, and they’re obsessed with showcasing every possible idiosyncracy so the normal people can shake their heads and laugh at how those dumb nerds are different from them. transhumanism looks rich because the news only reports on transhumanists who are rich.
https://twitter.com/lepht_anonym
Spot the rich male anti-poor Silicon Valley capitalist. Oh wait there isn’t any. Make one up. Ignore the fact that one of the most important forerunners of Actual Transhumanism is a poor as fuck mentally ill british working-class afab agender weirdo. Ignore the way the most common cyborg implant is an IUD. Ignore trans people doing weird shit that creeps out the normies and getting cracked down on as a result. Ignore all the ways normies’ regulations have restricted freaktech to people who can afford to route around them; in either having enough, or having nothing to lose. Ignore all the facts that contradict the narrative. The truly powerful change the facts to fit their views, and some people are quite inconvenient facts that need changing.
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