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Sex Science 3030: The Great Divergence

Posted Sep 28, 2007 4 comments

I finished the first part of this on a dark note, but I tend to stumble into dark places.  (Psst...hey kid, you ever heard of Colonia Dignidad?) That’s not the point of this series, though...I’m really going to get out there, and this is coming from the dude who brought you The Ballad of Rasputin’s Penis.  So far I’ve mostly been pointing at things and laughing here at Hump Jones—but now we’re going to get Full Visionary and start digging through the big concepts.

The great thing about this series is that, thanks to Aubrey DeGrey, I will live long enough to see if my predictions were anywhere close to accurate.  Humanity is just barely beginning to get a slightly accurate overall picture of the world we live on, so clearly everything here—and everywhere else except the Tao Te Ching—is subject to change and probably incorrect. 

The Great Divergence

Here’s my essential point: we’re living through an evolutionary landmark for the future of the human race as it splits into two or more new species. This will be a global sympatric speciation, meaning that it’s not because of geographic separation that our genome will be diverging.  As countless scientists and philosophers have obeserved, human evolution has become remarkably externalized, and our technology is all based upon principles in nature that humans have deciphered through observation.  Just the same, it took a world-class Canadian weirdo named Marshall McLuhan to deduce that this change in trajectory was actually a grand loop: “We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

We’re going to witness that second stage over the next two centuries, where the cumulative effects of our cultural and environmental changes increasingly alter the expression of our genes from birth to adulthood.  The driving force behind the species divergence will be two very different approaches to the coming changes: engaged embrace and experimentation vs. a retreat into the idealized past.  As usual, the most personally dangerous path offers the greatest advantages to our species, and the most personally secure path offers humanity nothing at all.

The Sheeple Question

I hear a lot of people feeding me the same impotent bullshit. It’s amazing how diverse this group is, from Arnold Schwartzenegger and Henry Kissinger on down to high school teachers, former co-workers, and kids who leave long comments on my websites.  They’re all trying to sell me—and you—the same Lie, and it goes a little something like this:

“The vast majority of human beings are not capable of managing their own lives.  They need to be guided and controlled by a strong external authority because they’re not equipped to make their own decisions.”

This logic is exactly like if I were to kidnap you, drug you, strip you naked, beat you and subject you to electrical shocks at random for the next 7 days.  That’s just the first half of the metaphor: after a week of that, I take you out of the basement and into the light and point out to my colleagues how you’re clearly incapable of making out there in the real world: you’re visibly shaking, you have difficulty thinking and solving simple math problems, and you keep sobbing uncontrollably.  What is wrong with you? You’re just another burden on society!  ANOTHER USELESS EATER.

Does that metaphor seem like a stretch to you?  I’m trying to illustrate how poor people are shaped by social and environmental conditioning, given a useless “education,” bombarded with powerful and contradictory media signals, raised on an inadequate diet, burdened with useless belief systems, and placed under relentless pressure for food, sex, money, power and status symbols.  I’m trying to illustrate how the wealthy elite, who shaped and designed this entire enviroment both intentionally and accidentally, then turn around and blame their own victims, by claiming that the symptoms of their abuse are actually inherent characteristics of the herd.

This kind of slave-think is disgusting to me.  When people look me in the face at parties and tell me, of course, it’s not like we can’t handle ourselves, it’s all those other Americans... Yeah, you know, the ones you judge without ever talking to, because you’re afraid of leaving your counter-culture cocoon of cool?  Give me a fucking break, Pilgrim: odds are, those Americans can fix a car, build a porch, shoot a gun, track a deer, and raise their kids better than you.

When you repeat the Herd Theory, it doesn’t say anything about the world you live in, but it does say an awful lot about you. It says that you’re so inept at communication you can’t reach people you live around every single day.  It says that you’re so terrified of confrontation you’d rather bitch about people you don’t even know.  More than anything else, though, it says that you’ve got at least 2 years of emotional blockage and personal issues to work through before you’ll have much of anything to contribute to the species.

...BUT WHICH SPECIES???

Sure, domesticated human life is depressing, but it’s also not the only game in town.  There’s also a generation that’s grown up playing outside, reading books, wrestling, sneaking out of the house at night, breaking laws, escaping police, creating art, building networks and always learning.  They are comfortable around adults and take responsibilities for granted.  They resent being told what to do, change their minds often, and are constantly willing to try new things.

Because the fact is, I’m really not a lone weirdo. There’s millions and millions of people just me like all around the Earth, right now.  Timothy Leary called us Futants (dumb name, Tim), gullible people call us Indigo Children, and Hakim Bey beat the hype by 20 years and simply called us “pirates.”

I have no idea how to describe my tribe, but at the same time, I know them the second I see them. All things considered, it’s probably better that I have no words for it—if I put it all on paper, it would make us easier to track down and kill.  Bitter, constipated, and insanely powerful human leaders have been trying to eradicate Us for tens of thousands of years.  Despite this non-stop barrage of violence, oppression, enslavement, starvation, exile, electroshock, prescription drugs and genocide, we are still here.  We will still be here when the wave finally crashes, too.  Waiting.  Watching.  Ready to move.

Further Reading for Neophiliac Hominids

I know it’s uncharacteristic, but just for kicks: let’s take a quick look at what other people have to say. That Wiki link I provided is worth exploring further, especially the passage on Artificial Speciation.  Ask yourself if you think “human animal husbandry” is dystopian science fiction or operational reality.  Do you know enough about the mechanisms of social control to evaluate how much power bureaucrats actually have?  Do you know enough about Eugenics and the philosophy of Darwinism to evaluate the beliefs and goals of those bureaucrats?

Look no further than what one of the technocrats has to say about the future of the beautiful, unconquerable human race:

During the singularity process there will be a human species split into at least 3 new species - totally software humans where even birth occurs in software, the plain old biological human, and the hybrid man-machine-computer. The software humans will rapidly diverge into other species, the biologics will die off rapidly or stick around for a while for various reasons and the hybrid could grow into a terrifying creature. The software humans will basically exist in other dimensions and evolve and disperse rapidly.

“Exist in other dimensions and evolve and disperse rapidly”? Yeah, until my great-grandkids find your server and pull the plug.  Gotta charge up the vibrator, guys, sorry. “Software humans”?  Sounds like something Andy Warhol would mutter in his fucking sleep. On second thought, screw the experts, I’m obviously going to have to do this myself. Up next, I will rent out a helicopter and take you over the fault lines where The Switch might be happening. 

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