A Critique of Silicon Valley's Transhumanists
A look at the iron age of the last century might teach us that political thought is an exhausted form of radicalism. Great civilizations across the planet clashed, old empires were shattered, and new experiments in social organization bloomed and failed. The end result: political ideologies across the spectrum acceded to mildly developmental liberalism or bureaucratic authoritarianism — with room for various degrees of civil liberties, ethnic policy, and the state-sponsored sandbagging of eroding traditional values. If the twentieth century began with millenarians promising apocalypse, it ended with theories of convergence.
