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>You are taking pot shots at exactly the wrong people. These fantasies tend to come from technocrats and transhuminists. Transhumanists very much would like a
by grawprog 6y ago
>You are taking pot shots at exactly the wrong people.
These fantasies tend to come from technocrats and transhuminists.
Transhumanists very much would like a world where everything is sterile and manmade, where the natural world doesn't get in the way of human technological progress and advancement.
The belief that humans are very much above nature and the world around them and that it needs to be controlled and manipulated to suit our whims, whether that's exploiting it for resources, or trying to manipulate it to some ideal state.
The idea that we can leave this world and turn space or some other world into some 'humanified' place that's suitable to us stems from this same idea of human superiority over our own world and the universe and that somehow, we can make it better, more suitable for us.
- whatshisface 6y ago>that somehow, we can make it better, more suitable for us. Assuming you live in a house, car, tent, lean-to or any other kind of shelter, you're calling yourself a "transhumanist" with this extremely broad definition.
- perl4ever 6y agoIt seems to me that "transhumanist" implies changing oneself to fit the environment, more than the other way around. I wouldn't call myself such, but I think if humans do colonize anywhere off of Earth, it will require modifying what a "human" is to where it is possible to live with much less technology in today's sense.
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