Artisanship has devolved into planned obsolescence, to sustain the consumer and debt cycles and thereby the business cycle created by our fiat money systems we are forever tied to the endless cycle of production, consumption and waste at the end of which the earth is soured and the skies darken.

Merely a few generations ago people still had things they used that had been handed down for generations, furniture was a good example. Heirlooms crafted with excellent workmanship and engineered to last a lifetime or 10! Today we we go home at the end of a long day at a job we don’t care about in whats left of the economy, to “our cozy little flat in noweheresville and pull our ikea curtains shut and try to hide from the big bad world and pretend it inst happening” we plead with our owners who have designed a world not fit to live in for us, their slaves, “just leave us alone, just let me have my tv-dinner and my steel belted radials and leave me alone”. “Well I am not going to leave you alone, I want you to get MAD! I want you to say I am a human being god damn it! My life has value!”

There is an alternative to the one-dimensional society of a one-dimensional man, where the individual drowns in a sea of synthetic junk and junk information: stop giving your love to things, build communities, give you love to other people and above all else consume in moderation and always be mindful of what you are supporting with your money oh consumer. Fuck all the nonsensical gadget bullshit people are obsessed with, fuck the entire consumer culture. grow your own vegetables, talk to your family, help people who have no one and nowhere else to turn: “be the change you wish to see in the world”!

racing towards singularity like monkeys strapped to a rocket sled, all of them whooping and screeching to speed up, OBLIVIOUS to the wall we are about to hit.

genetically tailored children, cyberization, transhumanism, AI, artilects, organic chimeras.

we are in a desperate race toward oblivion and everyone is leaning on the accelerator. everyone thinks this is a very good thing and it is, in fact, our doom. as dangerous as the internecine conflict wrought by tyranny and religion but far more complete and utterly devastating.

what we are witnessing is not a migration to a new kind of humanity, we are witnessing the end of humanity itself. a very peculiar occurrence in my view, because, as a student of human history, I would argue that never in the history of our species has the species, as a species, really possessed humanity to being with.

how typically human of us to destroy the opportunity for something precious in the pursuit of something fantastic. eschaton, singularity and any other term is essentially the same as apocalypse.

What and who you are now is irrelevant, you are an atavism and all of humanity hitherto is an ape and laughing stock: this is the view handed to us by the insanity of modernism. This not futurism, this is not a preservation of humanity and a movement forward from a technical standpoint, it is the deliberate destruction of humanity and a sacrificing of it to technology. The very scientists who repudiate metaphysics and its systems are themselves ushering in a sort of paganism and blood offering that will encompass and ultimately consume the entire species. like Mayan priests they are sacrificing the children of man on the altar of their own arrogance to an uncertain future, a future so uncertain that we can only refer to it as singularity.

all of our machinations thus far have wrought error, chaos and suffering. yet we are so blinded by our desire to live that we negate the totality of our experience and pronounce this miserable ease as holy!

so arrogant are we that the elite among us, now as ever in our history, seek total domination on an unprecedented level. so completely and mindbogglingly arrogant are we that despite our poisoning of everything around us, we seek to move forward and tamper with even more fundamental aspects of our existence and our world; verily, we even seek to reshape mankind himself via our oh-so perfect understanding.

we do not even understand our origins and yet we seek to reshape our very selves! children starve and go uneducated, we murder each other and enslave each other and yet we want to give birth to artilects and to cyberize the human body! we want to push off from ourselves again and again as if somehow by running from ourselves we could overcome our failings, when all along we had the power to overcome those failings without technology.

it is as though the more we advance technologically the more we regress as a species to a sort of blind and uncaring animal, as brutal and stupid as any wild creature especially toward ourselves but also towards others. but it is a new brutality, a perfect and utterly human brutality and this aspect of our humanity, in my view, shall be the only thing which survives once we have wiped the slate clean.

we are more complex than we know, but we mistakenly assert things like “our genetic code is a complete representation of us” or “our dna is a digital code for human life” when, in fact, it is merely one piece of a much larger puzzle. Yet we are so confident, as we have always been confident, that we possessed the complete picture, that we boldly press forward at our own peril. This is how we ruined the earth and it is how we will ruin organic life itself.

Because we were arrogant enough to stand on our proofs as convictions, because we were bad scientists and fell into the trap of Belief!

racing toward self destruction, miserable, over-worked, while the earth sours and the skies darken, toiling ceaselessly at our own demise, neglecting our origin, neglecting the true promise of technology, neglecting each other. Unaware of what we are, never the less producing a new type, like every parent that came before us - inexorably reproducing ourselves out of existence.

when if we had only slowed down, if we had only stopped and stood still we could have gathered the missing data for our iterative set theory of value!

I find myself wanting to conquer the world, I want to crush the modern world, the religious and the technological! I want to hit the reset button on you humanity: BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T LEARNED A FUCKING THING.

Once you get rid of the body there is no we anymore, there is no human anymore, there is only intellect as anti-nature. this is a will to self destruction codified as a technical solution to a nonexistent problem. our inability to excel at computation isn’t the problem, the problem is we don;t take care of the humans who are born nor see to their education.

rather than change this paradigm however we will go trans and post human because its easier, and you can buy a cyberbrain online by writing a check, you don’t have to get your hands dirty.

one can only hope that when the artilects do take over our civilization they will be more humane than we have been.

madness is the order of our day, as it was the order of our ancestors day, it is only a more complex form of madness it is no less insane.

what is the single unifying principle of this entire post humanist movement? is it the desire to explore space? no, for that is possible without it. Is it utopia? no, for that too is possible without it. is it the total transformation of the human being into another form? no, for that is essentially the destruction of the human form and a type of non-human or even anti-human existence.

the single codifying principle is FEAR, fear of death.

What?

Could it be that these people are nothing more than Cowards? But that is precisely my claim and they are not just cowards they are naive, and they are not just naive they are bad students of history, and they are not just bad students of history they are arrogant douche bags more interested in some selfish preoccupation than in the future of the species.

In fact if we had our eyes to see it, already we have gone too far, already monsters run the world. Already murder and mass murder have become to us acceptable and permissible, even a thousand years ago this was true, for not only these people are cowards, but all of us are cowards.

Shall I tell you the truth then?

They are afraid to die and we are afraid to live, we are afraid to die for life and they are afraid to live knowing that they must die. The great piece of idiocy in all of this is, of course, is that in becoming non-human they will actually have died. In what they consider a migration or elevation out and beyond humanity to a higher form is in reality a truncation and crippling of the form.

TechnoCalyps - Part I - TransHuman

TechnoCalyps - Part II - Preparing for the Singularity

TechnoCalyps - Part III - The Digital Messiah