Mary Harrington, UK columnist recently debated Elise Bohan on whether transhumanism will create a nightmare world, or a brighter future. She was along our line as seeing the transhumanism program of radically changing human nature at the genetic level, as full of dangers. But, an important point was made, that transhumanism has been advanced for many decades. The Pill, for example, and the revolutions in reproductive technology such as IVF, radically changed what it meant to be human. The contraceptive technologies made all women using them transhumanists. But the Pill did not delivered emancipation that 1960s feminists said it would: “In the case of sex, the transhumanist Pill revolution didn’t deliver (as the feminist Shulamith Firestone imagined) a polymorphous liberation of human sexuality. Or it did, but under the sign of commerce. We got the so-called “sexual marketplace” in which normative asymmetries in male and female mating preferences reappear in cartoon form, as market opportunities or as strategic weaknesses to be weaponised in a contest for personal gain. Or, straightforwardly, as commodities to buy, sell, or exploit.”
The same case can be made for many other transformative technologies, with the major example today being the mRNA Covid vaxxes, which have made the vaxxed into genetically modified organisms. There is a blog entry today citing Dr Jessica Rose who viewed evidence of DNA impurities in the vax that might get integrated into the cell, if I understand it correctly, which I may not, it is technical, but frightening.