This guy Anders has been churning out these great mad paranoid conspiracy rants about some sort of collusion between transhumanists and pop stars and the global elite, whose goal is to create a "Posthuman Robot Hell." He's mentioned h+ magazine a few times, including in this new tirade. In an earlier post, he "explains" transhumanism.
Quoting from his recent post, titled "Increasing Propadanda For March Towards Posthuman Robot Hell": "The 'elite' are not happy with us as we are. They see themselves as gods and promise us, too, divinity through genetic engineering and technologies over time - eg. artificial intelligence, which is many times larger than our natural intelligence - as well as eternal life here on Earth! The transhumanist movement has its origins in elitist and eugenic Julian and Aldous Huxley's fantasies on the Brave New World - as well as George Orwell's grim prophecy '1984' on a global police state that regulates everything and everyone. In order to prepare the youth for the future transhumanist brainwashing, conditioning by means of psychotropic drugs and chipping, which Obama's healthcare reform paves the way for, as well as the final goal: to change the world's population into elements of a global computer where everybody is linked to each other - and who therefore can all be controlled, the entertainment industry has started a massive influence on our youth with trans-and post-humanist ideals of satanistic connotation.
Biting off ideas from a recent h+ piece by Kyle Munkittrick (that he later links to), Anders writes:
Here Batman is given as an example of a super human, Spiderman / Ironman as the transhumanist and Superman as a posthumanist. The elitist ideal for us is the bee-hive, where nearly all are standardized workers - and a few command the empty-headed bunch. Behind it all lies a carefully planned psychological warfare strategy by the elite, who is overwhelming us with cognitive dissonance - contradictory ideas that lead us to bend ourselves after the most practical idea, ie. that of the elite. When the bombardment of sex and violence has gone on long enough, we become conditioned, numb, and violence and oppression of dissidents can continue without protests. Think of the immigrant / left-wing violence in everyday assaults, rapes, shooting and stabbing episodes on our streets - and in our homes as well as the drug epidemic. This is Satanic.
In terms of the transhumanist conspiracy, I can't help but think of what Tom Hayden said about the Chicago 8, accused of conspiring to disrupt the Democratic Convention in 1968: "We couldn't agree on lunch."
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Do these fools claim the
Do these fools claim the religion dominated Dark Ages was paradise on Earth?
Are they willing to give up the net, electricity, air conditioning, planes, food distro, sanitation and medical care?
Do these guys pray their messages to each other or do they use a phone?
Do these guys pray their way to work or do they use a car?
what a nut - not only does he
what a nut - not only does he asosiate satanism and transhumanism, a compleatly insane idea he is also against obamas health care plan that is similar to the uks(where i live) NHS(i dont know how similar they are) that helps so many people who cant help themselves.
Ha
He and Fred Phelps could get together and just hate everything and anything, and agree how anyone who doesn't believe everything they say is on the double fast track to hell.
Of course, since we're
Of course, since we're largely atheists (or at least not highly theistic) who believe in self expression, we're going to be labelled as Satanic. We are also, however, a movement largely founded on diversity, freedom of choice, and the like. The parts of his arguments that might actually scare people are totally untrue.
Ah, well. I'm not a PR expert, and I doubt I'm going to convince his flock anyway.
Now now, self expression
Now now, self expression doesn't make you satanic, its the horns (meant in jest). Having looked at the man's site, he's just another one of those New World Order guys, only this particular one also targets transhumanists. He is not important and I doubt he has a sizable "flock" as you put it. I hate to sound overly...combative, but this article seemed to have little "meat" to it, nothing beyond mentioning a crazy man's illogical ramblings.
Sizeable flock?
Last I checked there were 700+ comments on the page and it's been up for little over a month. Considering the fact that I've never seen an h+ page with anything near that number of comments, I'd say we are easily outnumbered.
The transhumanist community really needs to start taking these people seriously. Those 'New World Order guys' as you put it have a significant degree of overlap with the evangelical christian faith, which is one of the most outspoken and fastest growing sects, particularly in developing countries.
I think transhumanists need to take this threat standing up and think about getting ourselves a good PR team. You have to admit, in a lot of ways techies aren't the most self-conscious group.
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