Day 5: The Fitting Of Technocracy And Transhumanism

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If society must be transformed into Technocracy, then the humans who live there must be transformed into Transhumans. In other words, a perfectly efficient, utopian society envisioned by Technocrats would be quickly soiled if it were inhabited by weak-minded and imperfect humans in their present form. This is exactly why we see many Technocrats who also identify as Transhumans as well. Some well-known names that come to mind include Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Ray Kurzweil (Google) and Peter Thiel (PayPal).

To grasp this larger picture, it is necessary to address three questions:

  1. What is Technocracy?
  2. What is Transhumanism?
  3. How is Scientism the glue that binds them together?

What is Technocracy?

In 1939, The Technocrat magazine wrote:

Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population.

The magazine went on to explain that Technocracy eschewed capitalism, free enterprise, elected politicians and that it sought to create a resource-based economic system where scientists, engineers and technicians would be the sole planners and controllers of society.

Many Technocrats today have no idea of the deeper goals of Technocracy but nevertheless use their expertise to run portions of society without any regard for America’s traditional political processes. ‘Rule by experts’ is a rule, but it is only one subservient part of the overarching goal of replacing our current economic system with Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, Green Economy, Green New Deal, etc.

What is Transhumanism?

One modern champion of Transhumanism, Dr. Max More, wrote,

Transhumanism is a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades. “Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values.” (Max More, 1990)

Transhumans seek to apply advanced technology to the condition of man in order to take over the evolutionary process and literally create Humans 2.0. The holy grail of Transhumanism is to achieve immortality, but in the process they intend to weed out the more negative characteristics of Humans 1.0: their warlike nature and their tendency to be argumentative,  inconsistent, unreliable, etc. This is genetic cleansing on the largest possible scale.

Scientism is the glue that binds them together

Scientism is a religious proposition that was first presented by the French philosopher Henri De Saint-Simon (1760-1825). He wrote,

“A scientist, my dear friends, is a man who foresees; it is because science provides the means to predict that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men.”

While true science explores the natural world using the time-tested scientific method of repeated experimentation and validation, Saint-Simon’s Scientism is a speculative, metaphysical worldview about the nature and reality of the universe and man’s relation to it.

Saint-Simon proposed that the religious leadership of his day should literally be replaced by a priesthood of scientists and engineers, who would interpret the oracle of science in order to make declarations to society on the human actions necedssary to lead mankind to Utopia. Thus, science would be elevated to a state of immutable godhood, worshiped by its followers, who are led by its priests.

Technocracy and Transhumanism are both based on Scientism.

Both believe that advanced science, engineering and technology are the exclusive instruments of progress. Both are adept at promising benefits that are always just around the corner, but that never materialize. Both are expert at manipulating governments to supply taxpayer resources to fund their respective projects. Both believe they are hijacking evolutionary processes to create a future engineered by technologists.

No Future Here, Go to Mars…

An even more substantive connection between Technocracy and Transhumanism is that they both see no future for the world as it exists today. Radical environmentalists like Greta Thunberg believe the world has only 12 years left before a climate apocalypse destroys us all. Elon Musk uses his billions to escape Earth by funding his SpaceX rocket company with the ultimate intent of colonizing Mars. Jeff Bezos privately funds his Blue Origin for the same purpose – to colonize Mars. They both have stated that the only future for mankind is in outer space, populating the cosmos because Earth is going to hit a dead end when its natural resources run out.

In short, Technocracy and Transhumanism are both anti-human. Technocracy, channeled by the United Nations as Sustainable Development, believes that the earth can only support one billion or so humans. Furthermore, all humans are considered as mere resources on a par with herd animals such as cattle. Transhumanism believes Humanity 1.0 is as good as dead and the only hope for the future of man is for Transhuman scientists to invent Humanity 2.0 and leave Earth altogether.

In one sense, Technocracy’s strict allocation of resources and energy only mark a containment pattern while they build and test space travel technology.

This is not new thinking. In 1872 Winwood Reade wrote The Martyrdom of Man in which he stated as clearly as any modern Transhumanist or Technocrat could:

Disease will be extirpated; the causes of decay will be removed; immortality will be invented. And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds. 

These bodies which now we wear belong to the lower animals; our minds have already outgrown them; already we look upon them with contempt. A time will come when Science will transform them by means which we cannot conjecture, and which, even if explained to us, we could not now understand, just as the savage cannot understand electricity, magnetism, steam. (p. 179)

The word ‘radical’ doesn’t even scratch the surface

In light of the above, I hope you realize that you simply cannot look at Technocrats and Transhumanists and pin labels on them like Marxist, Socialist, Communist or Fascist. Transhumanists and Technocrats represent a new type of radicalness that the world has never seen before.

It means nothing when people gather to discuss philosophical issues and new ways of doing things, unless they have the means to do what they claim. Jeff Bezos isn’t waiting for NASA to colonize Mars; he is building his own spaceship with his own money. Likewise, Elon Musk is self-funding his own space fleet. The late global financier, David Rockefeller, didn’t wait for governments to flesh out a new economic order, but rather used his own funds to create the Trilateral Commission with its own economic transformations.

Thanks to the United Nations’ adoption of Technocracy as Sustainable Development, its Agenda 21 policies have been spread to every corner of the planet, including every town and county in America. In total ignorance of the trap being laid for them, people are now demanding more, not less. Global warming is being used as the battering ram to break down the current economic system, paving the way for the only alternative being offered: Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.

Lest you think that the scientific elite are benevolent pure-hearted idealists simply working for the betterment of mankind, I would caution you to remember the late Jeffrey Epstein, who plumbed the depths of depravity, debauchery, sex trafficking and blackmail and who was also a member of the elitist Trilateral Commission for several years. Epstein was a Technocrat and Transhumanist who hoped to achieve eternal life within his lifetime. Alas, he failed.

To use the word ‘radical’ to describe Technocracy and Transhumanism would be a gross understatement. They are both outside the bounds of objective reality.  And worse, they are dragging the rest of us along with them.

About the Editor

Patrick Wood
Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
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nng

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so call: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:20-21. The New Testament was written in Greek. So the Greek word for “science” is gnosis meaning knowledge, understanding, science. So called facts which Paul calls profane and vain babblings from oppositions of science falsely so called.

lancer78

Good article for the most of it. However, there is nothing “anti-human” about colonizing space. Space exploration/colonization is not about “escaping Earth” for most of us. It is about empowering humanity by expanding our presence beyond its confines and about enjoying the endless possibilities of space. Many humans will continue to live on Earth, but they also (one day) will be thriving on Mars, Venus, the outer moons, and possibly forging civilizations in far away stellar systems. Space exploration is very much pro-humanity. Colonizing other worlds also ensures our survival as opposed to forcing humanity to stay on one planet… Read more »

alex ellinson

“I hope Mankind never ever escapes the boundaries of planet Earth…to spread its iniquities elsewhere” -C.S.Lewis

alex ellinson

‘I hope mankind never escapes the boundaries of Earth…spreading its iniquities elsewhere”
….C.S.Lewis

Jan

The Creator will never allow it. Man is a parasite and destroys and sucks dry his own habitat not to mention joyfully kills and maims his own kind. Man has destroyed this Creation and will do the same thing no matter where he goes. Sin is in the DNA and some have more bad DNA than others. That sin is unforgivable because it was the result of deliberate genetic manipulation. What you don’t know about the foundation of the world will be your downfall. If there are others living in other worlds outside this penal colony called earth, do you… Read more »

Rachel E

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the masks those social engineers want us to wear into perpetuity resemble cattle feedbags? I don’t.

georgie szendrey

Is the transgender movement part of the transhumanism

Jim Boder

Transhumanism is not technocratic. Technology is not technocracy. Most transhumanists emphasize decentralized governance and minimal government, NOT rule by technocratic elites. That’s more of a Democrat thing.

Jan

Ah, yes! The “tree” of the knowledge (science) of good and evil. It has always been with us. Adam’s downline “consumed” it along with some other fruit from that “tree.” The common, profaned, man is forever deceived and cursed because of Adam’s downline. We have come full circle but Adam must have forgotten that the serpent/Cain “bruises his heel“. The supplanter is quite devious; deception is one of his hallmarks and may be double crossing the serpent until the serpent’s eyes are opened. Can it be the serpent doesn’t know its roots? Hardly. Their ancient standards bare his father’s logo.… Read more »

Max More

No, you are dead wrong. See the consistently anti-technocratic, anti-centralization, pro-individual freedom messages of the Extropian Principles and other major transhumanist writing, also embodied in the principle of morphological freedom.

Max More

Democrat thing? Most transhumanists were libertarians. It has broadened politically since then but I don’t know that Democrat describes most. You are correct that transhumanism is not technocratic. However, it is also true that there are a few technocrats — such as James Hughes and the “technoprogressives”. They differ greatly from more extropian transhumanists.

Hadaqar

This desire to change or leave the human body comes close to sounding like ancient gnosticism. There were varieties of this belief system, but one of them included a severe dislike of the flesh.

Max More

Wanting to change and improve on something doesn’t mean you severely dislike it. Must you hate your body to want to exercise and become fitter and healthier?

Rick in Phoenix

This is a great thing you’re doing by reposting your original articles otherwise I would not be reading them in a new light. I tried to tell the Transhumanists I knew that what their motives were not right– that they were inconsistent with even the basic ideas of being “humane”… and that a better road to go down should be “Super” humanism… a different concept. There’s a branch in philosophy termed “Classical Humanism” that takes a more humane route than “Secular Humanism” as well, based on referencing an ideal God rather than no-God. My update to Classical Humanism became Classical… Read more »

Blaise Vanne

Ummm… but gee, the man who was called THE smartest man at Cambridge 75 years ago, CS Lewis, wrote a whole trilogy on this, starting with Out of the Silent Planet.

I’ll bet ZERO people here have even heard of it, let alone read the three books, yet it old us exactly, to a T, what we are seeing today, 75 years after it was written

Max More

Interesting that you do not mention the consistent theme in my writing of individualism and anti-government, which is the opposite of technocracy.