Starry-eyed transhumanists have something surprising in common with anti-humanists who think people should go extinct.
According to transhumanists, man is not a terrestrial parasite, but a star god waiting to be born. For them, our species stands before a darkling plain that is at once its birthright and its destiny: the universe itself. This secular faith holds that it is humanity’s sacred duty to populate the vacant cosmos, to take our rightful seat upon its rude furniture and install Mind where there was before only the silence of brute matter.
In my view, however, the root cause of the New Misanthropy is quite apparent: we live in a secular age amidst a declining empire, and most of us no longer believe in the human project. Domestically, Americans are confronted with spiraling political dysfunction that makes any talk of national unity seem not simply naïve, but absurd. Internationally, the moral clarity provided for half a century by a bipolar world—which pitted American freedom against the Soviet gulags—is long in the rearview.
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