Frank Lloyd Wright’s plan to turn Ellis Island into “casual, inspired living, minus the usual big-city clamour.” July 30, 1961.
Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1954 by Ed Emshwiller
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Abortion actually *could be* pretty fatal. Nobody actually knows what happens to the unbaptized infants, though few people believe that they go to the Bad Place.
I’ve always wondered about much more complicated questions of soul mechanics which, as far as I’m aware, are both unanswered and unintuitive:
- New clones from existing tissue.
- Forks that somehow make one person into two people.
- Uplifted animals.
- Heavily genetically-modified humans.
- Reverted gametes later recombined.
Thanks McDonalds. Your new uniforms confirm the dystopian future is upon us.
Good game McDonalds… Perhaps you could have them wear masks to dehumanise them further?!
That isn’t how it works anymore. Corps are all about Diversity now. The empty smile is the mask.
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The megacorporations license you a gene mod which keeps you skinny so you can fit the image their advertising sells, and it boosts your metabolism so that you must eat more food to survive, helping to sell you large amounts of highly-branded junk food while you take on more and more debt.
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“Christianity went through a process of modernization during the 20th century. As new norms replaced old ones. But churches are emptying because of the loss of authentic faith.
The left will come to realize that Islam is not going to tow the line of homosexual acceptance nor will it promote feminist values. They’re valiant defenders of Islam now. But they won’t be if they become 30-40% of the religious population in the United States of America.”
“The soft populist-nationalism of Donald Trump is bulldozing through the neo-liberal headquarters. Illegal immigration is down. He’s pushing for merit-based immigration. He’s questioning affirmative action. He’s laying the foundation for a larger movement that is currently in it’s adolescence.
Capitalism and mass immigration have destroyed traditional norms, faith, and proper birthrates. A rejection of modern capitalism would do plenty for societies around the world. In terms of reviving older cultural and political norms. I’m quite fond of distributism, capitalist protectionism, and a rightist variant of Kropotkinism as alternatives to the current system.”
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I have various disagreements, but the real biting one is this:
It fails to account for Transhumanism.
For many years, opponents of Transhumanism have described it as techno-utopian fantasy that will never come to pass, and maybe the brain uploading part and the Singularity are, but they’ve been getting a lot quieter about the rest of it recently.
We have vat-grown organs in labs already.
We have nervous-system controlled robotic limbs.
We now have established, in a lab setting, some pretty serious genetic modification on human embryos, removing genes for a disease.
These aren’t science fiction. Only their economic viability is - for now.
Recently mouse lifespans were increased by 10-15% with stem cells in the brain, and studies on blood health with mice have also been promising (inspiring all those jokes about Vampire Peter Thiel).
There is a point where lifespan begins to increase more quickly and healthcare costs start to come back down again, where screening out genetic diseases and selecting for higher performance first hits the wealthy and then everyone else. This starts to undermine the effects of lowered fertility on more left-wing social configurations.
It undermines race, it undermines social darwinism, it undermines demand for religion.
You can ban it in Europe, you can ban it in America, but if you do, then the research will merely continue in Asia.
You might get a shift rightwards socially, but I don’t think it will look like what you expect. It will probably be in the form of a more holistic view of society where it is acknowledged that we can only afford to be kind if we’re careful not to increase the situations that required us to be kind in the first place. All the bitching about gays is a sideshow.
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