It says something about the degree to which the concept of progress permeates Western civilization, that the one is told about Nazi eugenics and hears “They tried to breed a superhuman.”
What interests me is the frequent opposition to transhumanism because of transhumanism’s supposedly mistaken notion of progress. Just because progress might not be smooth, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t experienced it in various dimensions. Skeptics about progress seem to have a romanticized view of the past, going along with a quasi-religious notion of a fall from grace (due to technology, “patriarchy,” techno-patriarchy, or whatever).
I don’t mind if other people want to go back to the days before we had fire, or say, the germ theory of medicine—as long as they don’t try to take me with them.
It says something about the degree to which the concept of progress permeates Western civilization, that the one is told about Nazi eugenics and hears “They tried to breed a superhuman.”
What interests me is the frequent opposition to transhumanism because of transhumanism’s supposedly mistaken notion of progress. Just because progress might not be smooth, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t experienced it in various dimensions. Skeptics about progress seem to have a romanticized view of the past, going along with a quasi-religious notion of a fall from grace (due to technology, “patriarchy,” techno-patriarchy, or whatever).
I don’t mind if other people want to go back to the days before we had fire, or say, the germ theory of medicine—as long as they don’t try to take me with them.