Thank you for this, I appreciate the well-knitted narrative. Regarding the origin of transhumanism: Bostrom's suggestion of Bacon overlaps Arendt's identification of the modern science fiction imagination expressing a desire to escape the earth, a somewhat different form of escapism than that of the philosophers and ascetics before. Sir John Meyres, "Blackbeard of the Aegean," was an archaeologist spook for the British Empire, mentor of V.Gordon Childe, who came up with the schema of the different Industrial Revolutions and influenced Julian Huxley and many others. I found this article, "Nomadism," given in 1938 interesting as it phantasizes camps and genocide of many peoples, on the ground that they are "syntrophic" with animals, not really human, a perversity. "Transhumance" is partial migration with animals. "Lebensraum" appears a couple times as well as speculation that might be "either Aryan or proletarian." https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2844399.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A17e873bbb11db58fdaf527778e8f5a87&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=
Good article. Really. But if you're going to do something like this again maybe break it up into smaller pieces?
I'm reasonably familiar with gnostic history, and it took me over two hours to get thru this one. Well, being a world class insomniac helped, too.
Very nice tie-in with our so-called elites and their rather uncanny resemblance to certain gnostic sects. I'd never thought of that before, but it makes a terrible amount of sense.
Thank you for this, I appreciate the well-knitted narrative. Regarding the origin of transhumanism: Bostrom's suggestion of Bacon overlaps Arendt's identification of the modern science fiction imagination expressing a desire to escape the earth, a somewhat different form of escapism than that of the philosophers and ascetics before. Sir John Meyres, "Blackbeard of the Aegean," was an archaeologist spook for the British Empire, mentor of V.Gordon Childe, who came up with the schema of the different Industrial Revolutions and influenced Julian Huxley and many others. I found this article, "Nomadism," given in 1938 interesting as it phantasizes camps and genocide of many peoples, on the ground that they are "syntrophic" with animals, not really human, a perversity. "Transhumance" is partial migration with animals. "Lebensraum" appears a couple times as well as speculation that might be "either Aryan or proletarian." https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2844399.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A17e873bbb11db58fdaf527778e8f5a87&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=
Also, note that Arendt identifies "everything is possible" as the watchword of totalitarianism. The present slogan of the German Greens.
Good article. Really. But if you're going to do something like this again maybe break it up into smaller pieces?
I'm reasonably familiar with gnostic history, and it took me over two hours to get thru this one. Well, being a world class insomniac helped, too.
Very nice tie-in with our so-called elites and their rather uncanny resemblance to certain gnostic sects. I'd never thought of that before, but it makes a terrible amount of sense.
Thanks for this one.
Yeah, sorry for the length. I felt this might not be a topic most of my subscribers care for and wanted to limit the number of posts