Transhumanism is thus the latest and maybe not even the best (we should probably wait for the next model) instantiation of the ascetic ideal. One wants life but one does not want life as it is, with all its trouble and mess, with all its banality and its limitations. Instead one wants videogame style life, one wants movie or television life: without suffering, without illness, without permanent death (save of the redeemable, corrigible, resettable kind), and although one wants sex, one might well be inclined to exclude birth, generating children on demand. Maybe.
Nietzsche`s Post-Human Imperative: On the All-too-Human€ Dream of Transhumanism . Babette Babich
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