<div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/3, Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Given all the angst flying about, I wonder if Dr.<br> Vaj might provide us with some background?</blockquote><div><br>Hi, I'm Giancarlo from Italy.<br></div></div>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Well, I
will try to give you a detailed background of Stefano Vaj - a person really very intelligent and cultured, and because of this very dangerous - from a different point of view..</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Below you
can find some interesting elements in order to better understand Stefano Vaj's
thought, together with his "transhumanist current", which he calls "sovrumanism"
(it's quite difficult to find an english term: actually – as Estropico/Fabio
correctly pointed out – "superhumanism" isn't truly correct, so for now I
will use "s<u>ovrumanism</u>" – a neologism –, in order to make
evident the intimate relation with the original use of the term made by
Stefano's inspirer, Giorgio Locchi: see below). </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The same
elements </span><span lang="EN-GB">then </span><span lang="EN-GB">can be used in order to assess if the strategy of the current AIT
(Italian Transhumanist Association) leadership – that is to cooperate *now*
with sovrumanists, to the extent of co-opting their leader, Stefano Vaj, onto
the AIT board and even appointing him "national secretary" – is a wise or an
unwise "strategy".</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">«<i>The real issue concerning abortion may be
considered that of whether and when abortion should be a due, while on the
contrary the claim of abortion as a right may be irrelevant (or even to
discourage, from the point of view of population dynamics) -- a right depending
mainly from economic hedonistic choices, moreover expressed only by the woman</i>.»
</span></strong>(<a href="http://www.biopolitica.it/biop-testo%28all%29.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Biopolitica</a>, p. 9). </p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[In Italian: «Similmente, la
vera questione in materia di aborto potrebbe essere considerata quella di se e
quando l'aborto possa essere un dovere, mentre viceversa potrebbe parere
irrilevante (o al limite da scoraggiare, sempre da un punto di vista di
dinamica delle popolazioni) la sua rivendicazione come diritto, in relazione a
scelte di tipo essenzialmente economico-edonistico, per di più unicamente della
madre.»]</span></font></p><p><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">This is the translation of a
passage from Stefano Vaj's most recent book, </span><a href="http://www.biopolitica.it/biop-testo%28all%29.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">Biopolitica </span></a><span lang="EN-GB">(2005) – the Sovrumanisti's "sacred
book" – made by Giuseppe Regalzi, an italian transhumanist who left the
Italian Transhumanist Association after Stefano was co-opted (not elected) as
national secretary.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Interestingly,
shortly after (p. 10) <strong>Stefano Vaj prophesies that the new sovrumanist</strong>
<strong>"era" (age) will last "1000 years"</strong>: one
might ask why just 1000 years, why the use of quotations marks, and - above all
- <em>who is he quoting</em>? (For a possibible answer, see </span><a href="http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=1000+years+reich&btnG=Cerca+con+Google&meta=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">here</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">At the end
of his book you can have a taste of Vaj's conflicting scenario, where the
strongest community finally prevails thanks to the use of transhumanist
technologies: <strong>"a new, possible dream of greatness on a scale never
imagined before, able to push o</strong><em><b>ur own community's freedom and
will of power</b></em><strong> where no man has gone before: the future will
belong to those who'll be able to express the </strong><em><b>strongest will</b></em><strong>"</strong>
(p. 134). </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Between you
can find much more. When I'll have the time, I would like to translate the
chapter on the "race".</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">But at this
point I think it's time you get acquainted with Giorgio Locchi, the fascist
thinker and Vaj's inspirer (the latter borrowed from the former the name of his
"transhumanist" current: "sovrumanismo", precisely): you will soon
realize that <b>Stefano central
idea is that transhumanism </b>(his idea of transhumanism)<b> can be actually considered the last emersion of a more general
principle - the "sovrumanist principle" - which originated from
Nietzsche and Wagner and during XX century already expressed fascism and
nazism</b>.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><pre><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Giorgio Locchi </span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D293&hash=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Espressione politica e repressione del principio sovrumanista </a></span></strong></pre>
<pre><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">(</span></strong><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Political Expression and Repression of the Overhumanist Principle</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">)<b></b></span></pre>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Foreword by Stefano Vaj</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">«<i>We
cannot truly understand fascism if we don't realize or admit that the so called
"fascist phenomenon" is nothing but the first political appearance of a broad
spiritual and cultural phenomenon, which we can call "sovrumanism"</i>.»</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">[Non si comprende nulla del fascismo se
non ci si rende conto o non si vuole ammettere che il cosiddetto «fenomeno fascista»
altro non è che la prima manifestazione politica d'un vasto fenomeno spirituale
e culturale, che possiamo chiamare «sovrumanismo».]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br>
<span lang="EN-US">(…)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">«<i>The
"sovrumanist principle", in relation to the surrounding world, becomes
absolute rejection of an opposite "egalitarian principle" which shakes that
world. If fascist movements considered democratic ideologies – liberalism,
parlamentarism, socialism, communism, anarco-communism – as the spiritual even
more than political "enemy", it's just because, in the historical perspective
builded on the sovrumanist principle, those ideologies represent as many
manifestations, onwards appeared in the course of history but each one still
existing, of the opposite egalitarian principle, (…) all together cause of the
spiritual and material decadence of Europe, the progressive dejection of
european man, the break-up of western societies</i>.»</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">[Il «principio sovrumanista», rispetto al mondo
che lo circonda, diviene rigetto assoluto di un opposto «principio
egualitaristico» che conforma quel mondo. Se i movimenti fascisti individuarono
il «nemico», spirituale prima ancora che politico, nelle ideologie democratiche
- liberalismo, parlamentarismo, socialismo, comunismo, anarco-comunismo - è
proprio perché nella prospettiva storica istituita dal principio sovrumanistico
quelle ideologie si configurano come altrettante manifestazioni,
successivamente comparse nella storia ma tutte ancora presenti, dell'opposto
principio egualitaristico, (…) tutte insieme causa della decadenza spirituale e
materiale dell'Europa, dell'«avvilimento progressivo» dell'uomo europeo, della
disgregazione delle società occidentali.]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US">(…)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<strong>«<i>With the purpose of the
"mythical" stance of a fascist movement, the analysis it makes of the first
cause and origin of the European nations decadence and break-up process is
essential. Nietzsche identified them with Christianism, as a transmission agent
of the "judaic principle", which he identified with the egalitarian principle.
Wagner, the other reference point of sovrumanism, considered instead the only
"judaic principle" as the origin of evil</i>.»</strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">[Essenziale, ai fini della presa di posizione «
mitica» di un movimento fascista, è 1'analisi che esso fa della causa prima e
dell'origine del «processo di decadenza e disgregazione» delle nazioni europee.
Nietzsche le aveva individuate nel cristianesimo, come agente di trasmissione
del «principio giudaico» che per lui s'identifica al principio egualitaristico.
Wagner, l'altro polo del campo sovrumanistico, aveva denunciato invece l' origine
del male nel solo «principio giudaico».]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US">(…)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">«<i>The
issue of "totalitarianism" is linked to a fundamental "political
philosophy" problem. Every society (or more exactly community), if wants to be
"healthy", has to be totalitarian, that is it admits only one "discourse", the
one ruled by the principle which shapes and moulds the community and, at the
same time, represents the "communitarian bond"</i>.»</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">[La questione del «totalitarismo» riconduce
invece ad un fondamentale problema della «filosofia della politica». Ogni
società (o più esattamente: comunità), quando vuol essere «sana» , è
totalitaria, nel senso che ammette un solo «discorso», quello retto dal
principio che informa e conforma la comunità e, insieme, costituisce il «legame
comunitario».]</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br>
<br>
<b><span lang="EN-US">Please note that Stefano Vaj fully adheres to Locchi's ideas</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> (and consequently named his
"transhumanist" current "sovrumanismo"): in fact in his <a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D293&hash=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">foreword </a>to this article he wrote:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><strong><span lang="EN-US">«<i>Twenty
years after its first publication, I think that this short text can really
close the historical discussion over what fascism has represented, as the</i></span></strong><i><span lang="EN-US"> <strong>first thorough political</strong> <strong>expression of the
sovrumanist world view, and take the stock from which consider the just
concluded century, in connection with the future we want to build for ourself</strong></span></i><strong><span lang="EN-US">.»</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[Vent'anni
dopo la sua prima pubblicazione, crediamo che questo breve testo <span> </span>possa così davvero concludere una riflessione
storica su ciò che il fascismo ha <span> </span>rappresentato,
quale prima espressione politica compiuta della visione del <span> </span>mondo sovrumanista, e fare il punto da cui
gettare lo sguardo sul secolo <span> </span>appena
concluso in funzione dell'avvenire che vogliamo crearci.]</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-GB">Also consider that Stefano constantly refers to
Giorgio Locchi, and often recommends his texts and books to the new members of
the italian mailing list</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></p>
<br>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">His fierce
criticism toward democracy, equality and human rights (see <a href="http://www.orionlibri.com/include/showart.php?idart=820" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.orionlibri.com/include/showart.php?idart=820</a>
and <a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D315&hash" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D315&hash</a>=)
is very worrying, specially if considered together with his idea of
society/community divided in castes, his fad for indo-european ethnicity (see </span><a href="http://www.italiasociale.org/libri/libri110706-3.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.italiasociale.org/libri/libri110706-3.html</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> and <a href="http://it.altermedia.info/cultura/biopolitica-una-traccia_3246.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://it.altermedia.info/cultura/biopolitica-una-traccia_3246.html</a>
), and the use of new technologies in a conflicting scenario among different
communities.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br><br>
Finally, I already warned the WTA leaders that it is not wise to restrict the
comments about Stefano Vaj just to what he says in the mailing lists. There are
a lot of relevant sources in order to better understand Vaj's actual thoughts,
that is:<br><br>
- the books and articles he wrote (and I tried to give you an idea in this
email).<br>
- the publishers of his books (small fascist publishers, sold by the fascist
bookshop <i>Orionlibri</i>: </span><a href="http://www.orionlibri.com/index.php?page=showbyid&idn=820" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">LedeAkropolis</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span><a href="http://www.libroelibri.com/barbarossa.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">Editrice Barbarossa</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> - note that "Operation Barbarossa"
was the code name for german invasion of Russia).<br>- the
journals where he publishes his articles (i.e. </span><a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.uomo-libero.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, notorious extreme right journal
and "think tank")<br>
- the websites which reproduces his articles and quote and review his books
(one for all, the already mentioned "<i>Italia
Sociale, the national socialist bimonthly</i>": </span><a href="http://www.italiasociale.org/libri/libri110706-3.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.italiasociale.org/libri/libri110706-3.html</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">If you
perform a google search ("Stefano Vaj") you will find, for example, -
and aside from Biopolitica - Stefano's article "</span><a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D298&hash=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">For a total
ethnic self-defence</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">",
or his already mentioned </span><a href="http://www.orionlibri.com/include/showart.php?idart=820" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">book fiercy critical against
human rights, democracy and equality</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> (at the moment strangely </span><a href="http://www.dirittidelluomo.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">offline</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">), or the already mentioned </span><a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/index.php?url=%2Farticolo.php%3Fid%3D324&hash=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">foreword to
text of Locchi </span></a><span lang="EN-GB">(a
notorious fascist), or a </span><a href="http://www.italiasociale.org/libri/libri110706-3.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">review of his last book Biopolitica </span></a><span lang="EN-GB">written by a well known waffen SS
admirer and Ahmadinejad supporter (specially when the iranian president talks
about the holocaust) on a nazi (national socialist) website, or a notice of one
of his lecture at a </span><a href="http://www.associazioneedera.org/archivio_documenti1.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">fascist association </span></a><span lang="EN-GB">on a well-know </span><a href="http://kaliyuga.blog.excite.it/archive/category/Appuntamenti_&_iniziative" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">fascist
website</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, or his
interview casted on the fascist </span><a href="http://radiobandieranera.vivamafarka.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">radio bandiera nera</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> ("black flag radio"), or
one of his article on </span><a href="http://www.centrostudilaruna.it/forum/viewtopic.php?p=358" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">Orion</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">, a fascist and anti-american journal, and
so on. <strong>But - and this is the problem - among these questionable and
embarassing query results now you can find that the same Stefano Vaj is also..
national secretary of the Italian Transumanist Association!</strong></span></p>
<br>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Besides, particularly
noteworthy is Stefano usual "accusation" against his adversaries to be "Christians",
as he knows that there are a lot of transhumanists who (I think correctly)
criticize Christianism. But this is a strategy based on misinterpretation and mischaracterization.
In fact, those who cannot read italian need to be advised that Stefano <span>Vaj</span><span> </span>suggests a quite odd
"genealogic reconstruction": he thinks that human rights, enlightenment,
democracy, equality, liberalism and socialism are all the "secular
face" of the "judaeo-christian" religion (that is, they're all
the products of the "judaic principle" which corrupted and perverted the old
(indo)european "sovrumanist principle" . </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Now, it
isn't clear yet if he criticize the <span>formers</span> because he
hate the latter, or viceversa. But - that being stated - it's anyway clear that
his "accusation" to be "christian" actually (and
paradoxically) can be often interpreted as a genuine compliment (of course, if
you're an advocate of human rights, democracy, equality, enlightenment,
liberalism or socialism).</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Finally,
consider that in Europe it is a well known
tactics by extreme-right wingers to seek a common field with the Left, usually
presenting themselves as anti-zionist and anti-imperialist, and preaching the
"end" of the "old" political labels and divisions - while
infiltrating any Left organization that allows them in. If you could read
italian, I would suggest you this illuminating text entitled "No-global
Fascists": </span><a href="http://files.meetup.com/508445/i_fascisti_noglobal.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">http://files.meetup.com/508445/i_fascisti_noglobal.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> .</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">But anyway
you can easily realize Stefano's real attitude and willingness to
manipulate looking at his own unequivocal words (</span><a href="http://www.biopolitica.it/biop-testo%28all%29.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="EN-GB">Biopolitica</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">):</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
«<strong>Besides, in the biopolitical field several subjects can be read in
different ways, which fascist regimes didn't fail to exploit propagandistically
and tactically, playing on the internal contradiction of the humanist tendency</strong>,
which is culturally dominant. Crimes linked to abortion and birth control
propaganda included in the "Rocco Code" [the Italian penal code enacted during</span> fascism and still in force, although heavily amended] (significantly
comprised under a title referred to the "race integrity"), are obviously
consistent with a policy aimed at preserving and expanding our own referential
community's demographic, but at the same time they also meet traditional
catholic views. Equally, <strong>using sterilization or euthanasia in order to minimize the persistence
and the spread of dysgenic characteristics can be also defended and promoted on
the basis of "humanitarian", hedonistic and fundamentally individualistic
considerations (the ones today upholden by the Radical Party), </strong><em><b>which represent the
exact opposite of our new values</b></em>.»<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">[«D'altronde, in campo biopolitico vari temi sono suscettibili di
letture diverse, che i regimi fascisti non hanno mancato di sfruttare
propagandisticamente e tatticamente, magari facendo leva sulle contraddizioni
interne della tendenza umanista comunque culturalmente dominante. La previsione
di reati connessi all'aborto e alla propaganda della contraccezione nel Codice
Rocco (espressivamente ricompresi sotto un titolo che fa espresso riferimento
alla "sanità della stirpe"), sono ovviamente coerenti con una
politica volta al mantenimento ed allo sviluppo della demografia della comunità
di riferimento, ma si trovano anche a soddisfare tradizionali posizioni
cattoliche (...). Similmente, l'uso della sterilizzazione o dell'eutanasia per
limitare il perpetuarsi e la propagazione di caratteristiche suppostamente
disgeniche ben può essere difeso e promosso anche in rapporto a considerazioni
di tipo "umanitario", edonista e fondamentalmente individualista
(quali quelle oggi avanzate dal Partito Radicale), che rappresentano il
contrario esatto dei nuovi valori anche su tale piano affermati.»]</span>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">Please consider that
the liberal and libertarian Radical Party is probably the most popular party
among italian transhumanists, and then please note: Stefano verbatim says that
that party upholds the *exact opposite* of his sovrumanist values!</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">All is
written, all is available, but apparently almost nobody want to read it.
Yet his strategy is quite clear: <b>he's
"tactically exploiting" some temporary convergences in order to
attain his sovrumanist goals.</b> <br></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">So we need to ask ourselves: given that we
all want a "posthuman" future, if we were forced to
chose between a sovrumanist posthuman future – where the
individual is totally subdued to his community (that is to the cleptocratic
elite </span><span lang="EN-GB">self-appointed </span><span lang="EN-GB">as the only "Volksgeist" interpreter), where the reproductive
technologies are used in order to replicate the indoeuropean three-castes
order, where the abortion is not a right but sometimes can be a "due" because of
demographic goals – and a non-posthuman future, which one would we
chose? </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">After
knowing better Vaj's thought, I definitely opt for the second: this is
why I think that even to collaborate *now* with him could be devastating: Stefano Vaj actually could be more dangerous than many antitranshumanists. <br></span></p><br>Regards,<br>Giancarlo, Italy<br>