The Immortalisation Commission: Tracing Transhumanism

In this video I read from John Gray’s “The Immortalisation Commission”. The book is an important document to help us trace the transhumanist worldview which seems as old as modernity itself. As old as modern science and modernity. Beginning with Francis Bacon's fever dream of building a new temple of Salomon in The New Atlantis, to Victorian England, Marxism, and Bolshevism — The order of the Unnatural goes back centuries. This worldview stems from latent Christianity and its promise of salvation as well as from revealed Abrahamic religion more generally, the apocalypse as a necessary event to establish the New Jerusalem (utopia) must also occur.

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