Finally, there was an antipode excellent book “Tyranny of Progress” (White Raven, Kraków, 2023, p.438). Under this eloquent title, the seventeen "great" (mainly university professors) deal with the alleged "progress" which is simply a illness so common that it is possible to talk of the epidemic of the century threatening humanity. Order this wonderful book today!! It would be impossible and undesirable to present its contents in a single text, as the wealth of this book would only suffer. Therefore, it is better to do this fragmentaryly, on installments. Part of the first volume – “The road to nowhere” – begins with prof. Andrzej Nowak, and as a historian of the large class it is fitting to decision freely between ages. He even found the "precursor" of transhumanism in 15th-century Italy, and it was Giovanni Pico della Mirandala, who expressed in 1486 this thought: "...You will be able to degenerate and rotation to the order of animals and you will be able to revive and with the power of your spirit to ascend to the order of divine beings." Indeed, but he may have expressed the intention of striving for holiness, while the ambitions of transhumanists concern another spheres. However, Mirandaola got off the road rather quickly, and then others pursued specified a marked trail. And any say that Jan Duns Szkot (1266-1308) was the first to present a series of existences from man to God as a continuum as the author writes, mentioning later Kanta or Kosselecka, but let's decision on due to the fact that I presume that an interesting reader will discover them himself while reading... Finally, Nietsche went farthest, for he preached the death of God (who believed it was a bad thing!) and fortunes the liberation of a man who would become superman. Unfortunately, what we have seen again for respective years in the planet entitles us to say that Mirandaola had already predicted the degeneration of man, his fall into the order of animals. So was Nietsche wrong?! In addition to emancipation, tolerance is important, always respected in the past of the Republic, and which is not recognized by the latest ideologies. On the margins, it would like to be clarified that the word alleged "liberation" repeated from Nietsche, and frequently in fresh trends of aggressive ideology, is simply a large abuse, or, in fact, a misunderstanding, due to the fact that alternatively of liberation, we see DISPUTATION or DECOMMODATION of personality/awareness, which deprives people of the ability to decently analyse and measure criteria. And so broken minds fall into many traps, accept poisoned offers. There are many dangers and absurdities in untested theories, specified as sex diversity. And alternatively of liberation, we besides have blindness, people enter paths leading to the unknown, accept hastily even sex changes that turn out to be a individual tragedy and only fuel the fortunes of specialists. Authentic sex change is impossible, the shadow of the erstwhile personality remains in memory. And offers of change are peculiarly cruel (e.g. cut off your breasts...) erstwhile addressed to young people during flowering. And alternatively of liberation comes enslavement erstwhile people accept the mutilation of their bodies and beings of the spirit. But adequate of these comments, let's go back to the excellent book “Tyranny of Progress”. Further, Prof. Nowak resembles Julian Huxley, father of transhumanism. The word was formulated in 1957 and based on Darwinism, another aborted explanation – why did monkeys halt in evolution? That's not what Darwin explained. We besides read about artificial intelligence (AI) and the dangers it carries. besides about Ciołkowski, the grandson of the November insurgent, and about the conquest of the Cosmos, which lasts before our eyes, although it is truly in the serrated phase, due to the fact that we do not even have bases on the close Moon. Let us not get into euphoria either, someday it may turn out that we infected Space with our flaws ?! due to the fact that the first war in orbit is not so hard to foretell around the "population" of the Moon. . Would the conquest of Space truly convince us that we are approaching God? I uncertainty it. People's dreams of immortality are besides completely unrealistic. Before transhumanists roil them and “godostritele” in Russia, of course, in vain. Prof. A. Nowak, writing about them, recalls their sympathizer of the well-known Russian author Andrei Płatonov (1899-1951), tortured by Stalin.
The fact is that since 1970 transhumanism has gained popularity in the West, and dreams of immortality have supported cryonics. Even among life enthusiasts, however, fewer were willing to frost their bodies after death and wait for medical progress, and the advanced costs are a barrier here. They besides work on mastering nature through chemistry, changes in human consciousness. This would let full supervision of man, which involves a grim imagination of the future of the coming totalitarian era. This is predicted by the planet Transhumaniste Association, established by the well-known Swedish Prof. Niklas Bostrom of Oxford, who presented this alarming script in 2019. In this script (The vulgar planet hypothesis) even the pandemic could justify specified peculiar surveillance, but this did not happen. The transhumanist movement is attended by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter. The hypothesis of the planet government, which according to Prof. Bostrom, would deal with effective global management, cannot be ignored. The detonation of wars in fresh years, however, suggests that the emergence of specified a government is inactive a fantasy, especially since there are already signs of wars much larger, and even of a global war with a atomic profile. possibly it will not happen due to the fact that the elites of superpots realize that it is threatening to destruct the planet, and humanity is not yet at specified a level of technology as to evacuate in Space these fewer "happy" (superhumans?) and find any shelter in our galaxy. Even on the Moon, we don't have shelters yet, but how do we supply a commission? Could the earth, poisoned by atoms, be a origin of healthy food? Prof. Nowak quotes and Darwin, who has already preached that we will descend from this planet with the consciousness of the culprits, due to the fact that as a species we have destroyed the planet. This is confirmed by climatologist Paul Crutzen (Nobel 1995, chemistry). In line with this posthumanism, man proved to be a parasite destroying the Earth. So how do we save the planet? In this critical situation, there are besides absurd or gruesome advice, e.g. not giving birth to children, due to the fact that it is additional carbon dioxide or eating the dead to reduce meat consumption! – as another Swedish prof. suggests. You got to be kidding me. Is the end of the line stimulating the macabre? The degradation of people and the imagination of the totalitarian era coincide strangely in the almost duplicate perspectives of prof. Bostrom and Marquis de Sade, as quoted by Prof. Nowak at the end of the chapter. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. After all, we are attached to democracy and even shed blood in its defence. To conclude, it is worth quoting the fresh message of the large leftist Noam Chomsky, who abruptly defends the thought of tolerance with sarcasm: “I feel that tolerance will shortly come to a point where wise people will be forbidden to think not to offend the feelings of stupid people” (!) I think Chomsky means those who formulate crazy theories without verification...
That's right, the advancement being made by morons, morons. Mistaken or uneducated is the origin of increasing tyranny!! Oh, it reminds us of the large book by Janusz Szewczak “Idiotocracy or the collusion of fools”! Yes, and democracy is the victim of idiotic! c.d.n
Marek Baterovich
