futurists. they are the apostles of the coming age. unfortunately, like any holy man, charlatan or otherwise, they prognosticate with the caveat that all of this is in their imaginations. sure, some clever technologist may find a way to create a reality-based machine that carries out the function dreamed about, or another technologist may create some technology unaware of the convergence with a dreamer’s dream. that’s possible. but what’s more likely is that something completely different will come to pass. i suppose transhumanism is the idea that we are less and less bound to our human frailties: weak bodies, gullible minds, intractable desires. but the problem is that some of us, specifically the ultra rich, have made it over that hill and only a few of them have the resources yet so far none of them have transcended. billionaires and geniuses alike still have to breath, eat, shit, piss and sleep — oh, and don’t forget the most important function of all: fuck and have babies. rich people still get cancer and die. see steve jobs for reference. evolution’s human is a collection of 37 trillion cells and hundreds or thousands of distinct organisms living in one body. it’s never going to be easy to reproduce. it took two and a half billion years (or more) for evolution to assemble the rules of matter into life forms as complex as humans. even if we were to speed that process up by six orders of magnitude, it would still take us 2500 years to achieve similarly. the best we can hope for right now is to maximize the biochemical machines we have without somehow managing to self-destruct. but we are lazy, or as biologists say, we conserve a lot of energy. why bother transcending when we can sit around watching television all day smoking pot and drinking ourselves into oblivion? who would be the first to create a human that doesn’t suffer? that’s transhuman. take away my pain and my conscience so i don’t have to be bound by them anymore because this thing we call life spends every moment of its existence fighting itself just to survive. the never ending fight is what propels us forward — but it’s also what drives us to dream of largesse. it seems, then, that the dream of the transhuman is to give up what it is to be human. ironically, the second we transcend, all motivation would be lost and we would cease to be transcendent. without motivation we are so much matter and energy floating in space. why does this ghost haunt? it wants its body back.
Month: August 2018
geniuses need not apply
sir francis bacon said to quiet the mind. collect the data. find the relationships. eliminate emotionality. stop the speculation. knowledge in the form of science will emerge.
am i supposed to care what every single person in the world thinks?
because i don’t. the world is full of idiots and morons. there. i said it. your opinion is uninformed, magical, biased, unintelligent, unintelligible, nonsensical, poorly constructed, poorly conceived and downright self centered. so what if you’re a billionaire? you made your money by crushing the backs and heads of literally millions of unaware sheeple. that doesn’t make you a saint, that makes you a monster, you fucking hitler wannabe.
shit eating damned selfish little babies
what the fuck were you thinking? how could you even entertain such a stupidly selfish idea and somehow justify it to yourself by saying it was something i desired? how could you know me so little? i ask for some fucking thought and a little bit of sensitivitiy and instead you go deep within your wellspring of most childish selfishness and pull out this stupid fucking idea. whatever in the world made you think i would want this? i said no a year ago and i said no yesterday and i said no fifteen times. i don’t give two fucks about your internal rationalization process or your unicorns or your rainbows. you’re not a goddamned wizard and this is not motherfucking fairyland. this is the motherfucking real world. now go away and leave me the fuck alone and stop trying to fulfull your own needs by concocting self-centered plans and telling me how much i love them. i hate them. i hate them. i hate your stupid plans to satisfy your own desires at my expense. fuck you.
they’re fucking with your emotions
don’t believe it. don’t believe the headline. don’t believe the byline. don’t believe the copy. everyone is out to get you. every marketer on the internet is out to get you. they salivate at your pageviews and your clicks. it used to be search engine optimization, the intellectual sister. now it’s emotional rapture, its hysterical mother and drunk father. you feel that tug, don’t you? the one pulling you into addiction? the one manipulating your reptile brain? feeding your chipmunk brain overevolved lies? telling you how pretty you are to distract you while it slips its crooked, syphilitic wet cock into your numbed up holes. that’s the incel. that’s the climate change denier. that’s your grandma, terrified in the closet, blue screen illuminating her face, being pushed down the amygdaloid staircase. wake up! don’t just be woke! awaken!
denialism
i missed michael specter somehow. now i know. he exposes the enemy.
