The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace ejcurtin   “But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky,  Notes from the Underground Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2.  They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.  Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”  Mind-forged manacles are popular because freedom from the laws of nature, while desired, is feared.  It suggests that liberty is a fundamental existential truth. Don’t get me wrong, I can count.  I am ...

  CIA and Mossad-linked Surveillance System Quietly Being Installed Throughout the US Under the guise of stopping mass shootings, a surveillance system backed by top Mossad, CIA and FBI officials is being installed in schools, houses of worship, and other civilian locations throughout the country, much of it thanks to the recent donation of an “anonymous philanthropist.” BY WHITNEY WEBB Launched in 2016 in response to a Tel Aviv shooting and  the Pulse Nightclub shooting  in Orlando, Florida, Gabriel offers a suite of surveillance products for “security and safety” incidents at “so-called soft targets and communal spaces, including schools, community centers, synagogues and churches.” The company makes the lofty promise that its products “ stop mass shootings .” According to  a 2018 report  on Gabriel published in the  Jerusalem Post,  there were an estimated 475,000 such “soft targets” across the U.S., meaning that “the potential market for Gabriel is...

Transhumanism as the dominant ideology of the fourth industrial revolution Klaus-Gerd Giesen In  Journal international de bioéthique et d'éthique des sciences   Issue 3-4, 2018 , pages 189 to 203 Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations Translator: Ruth Grant, Editor: Matt Burden, Senior editor: Mark Mellor Introduction In this volume dedicated to transhumanism, it is important to slip in, however furtively, a few words from political science. In essence, political science is the study of power relations and how they are justified and contested. Viewed from this perspective, “transhumanism” takes on a crucial significance. In fact, transhumanist thought is all about transcending our “natural” human condition by embracing cutting-edge technologies. The movement has already passed through various stages of development, after first emerging in the early 1980s—although “transhumanist” as an adjective was deployed as early as 1966 by the Iranian-American futurist Fere...