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Happy Valentine with chocolate to everyone from a transhumanist numbskull

I have given and received Valentine presents like last year. Next year I will certainly give some and hopefully receive some. Yesterday I reacted to a post titled Valentine’s Nay by an author (guess) who felt the need to inform his readers that Valentine is all about “cheap crap squirted into a heart-shaped mould on an assembly line in the presence of who knows what human suffering”, concluded that “I wish the Left would shed this elitism”, and was immediately labeled by the author as a “numbskull who idiotically accused him of being over-intellectual and elitist”.

I might comment about the manners of this gentleman, but I don’t really care too much and often the best policy is just ignoring aggressive ~~jer~~ persons. I will comment on another issue: he is, of course, (over)reacting not to what I actually said, but to the fact that a transhumanist dares to read and comment to his blog. Or, in his words: “Tell all the down home “folks” how you plan to become an immortal sooperhuman by uploading your brain into a computer and how you think a Robot God will direct the nanobots one fine day to make you rich beyond the dreams of avarice… the Robot Cultist brain trust members who like to lurk around the edges of my blog because I talk about the politics of emerging technoscience here among other things”. Oops, I almost forgot the “completely batshit crazy techno-utopian crap talk of the flavor my kooky crowd peddles”.

The interesting thing is that my post had NOTHING to do with sooperhumans, uploading, nanobots and Robot Gods. I was just trying to tell him that perhaps not all chocolate makers use “cocoa beans harvested by child slave labor on the Ivory Coast”, and that over intellectualism and elitism from exponents of the Left “often results in the Right winning the elections with the results that we all know”. But the gentleman did not even consider what I had actually written, perhaps did not even read it, and immediately launched one of his frequent anti-transhumanist rants which was, as everyone can see, COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to the subject under discussion.

I can only conclude that these people are so obsessively focused on their visceral hatred against transhumanists that they see everything filtered by an anti-transhumanist polarized lens and are not capable of having a rational discussion about anything else. If they are what passes for intellectuals these days, I am happy and proud of being a numbskull.

Posted by G.P. on 02/16 at 12:39 PM
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