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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have witnessed the ineffectual belief-system called "Trans-human" since</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">its conception, and I have always struggled to decide whether it is just a</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">harmless if pointless diversion - - or whether it is a potent force for REACTION</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and regression!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Either way, it cannot be claimed that transhumanism is in any way RADICAL</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">or forward thinking. There is no change from the agenda of Italian futurists of</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the 1930's …. while events like MVT have changed the landscape of knowledge</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">irretrievably.</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What I argue is that by kicking any possibility for real advance (to a new species)</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">into the long (500 year) grass, the transhumans and extropians are just serving the</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">status quo, and are a force for inertia. Applauding new incremental technological</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">advance is pure mainstream corporate America. More of the same to keep society</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">exactly the same. They are in a mental comfort zone of "transition" to a new state</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">as a mechanism for actually avoiding this transition at all costs!</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I must assert the Law of Excluded Middle that maintains you can either be HUMAN,</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">or not. After-human or posthuman is the alternative (unless you choose to seek</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">regression to pre-human). This is quite clear. No sitting on an imaginary</FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">transitional fence. The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION was the time of change - not the</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">late C20th - as a species, industrial man bears little resemblance to his forebears.</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Our bones are D-shaped rather than O-shaped as skeletons were in the past, so</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">future archaeology will clearly be able to identify us as POST-human, even if some</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">of us currently have failed to notice!</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
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