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Birth of Superhuman-- Death of Man

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 Regardless of one's religious views, or lack thereof, this essay (and the one preceding it) is worth reading. Birth of Superhuman-- Death of Man We cannot stop "progress" and that progress is not transhumanism, it is posthumanism. KAREN HUNT AKA KH MEZEK I am following up from my last essay  To Live Forever  with this short piece. We cannot fight against what we don’t understand. I firmly believe that what I am writing about here is more critical than just about anything else that I have written thus far. It is the crux of the matter. If we can grasp the overarching motivation of the posthumanists (forget transhumanists), then everything that once appeared senseless, like destroying a company’s profits, the war in Ukraine, or even bringing about the downfall of western civilization, becomes clear. So, let’s lay it all out in 12 minutes. Every day, billionaire  VC Masayoshi Son ,  sits at the feet of AI and pitches ideas to his guru, ChatGPT. They brainstorm together unti

Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Andrea Long Chu says all the quiet parts out loud

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  Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Andrea Long Chu says all the quiet parts out loud MARY HARRINGTON The  award , in May, of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism to New York Magazine writer Andrea Long Chu, occasioned  howls  of outrage from gender-critical feminists. This was not prompted by the actual essays mentioned in the award, though. Rather, the fury stemmed from Long Chu’s real claim to fame: saying all the quiet parts out loud on gender ideology. The central provocation on this front is Chu’s 2019 monograph  Females , described by Verso as “a genre-defying investigation into sex and lies” and by gender-critical writer Lauren Smith as “ poorly disguised misogyny ”.  Females  draws together Chu’s personal development toward transgender identification, a re-read of work by  SCUM Manifesto  author Valerie Solanas, and a baroque theory of pornography and desire, into a central, controversial thesis: “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it”. Gender-critical feminists regularly d