By Vasco Ustarroz
Transhumanism is a philosophical and cultural movement started by Klaus Schwob, director of the World Economic Forum. The movement’s main adviser is Israeli writer and thinker Yuval Noah Harari, author of several books on the future of humanity according to his perspective. Transhumanism considers the possibility of designing and changing human genetics to better adapt to improved social functioning within the ethical and moral parameters of established power.
The project considers accessing the biometric data and estimated behavior of population masses. It also includes possibly incorporating the necessary genetic changes through nanotechnology techniques. The earth is an incredible 5,000 million-year-old ship in which we travel the universe. If its age were 50 years old, man would have appeared on the planet 10 minutes ago and the industrial revolution four seconds ago. During this time, we have used up half the natural resources that guarantee life on earth.
Human planning control opposes nature because we cannot know the plan and the regulations of the universe. That idea exists only in the head of Western man, who has always been wrong. He will continue to be wrong as long as he does not cultivate a culture of belonging, which is the idea that we are part of a planetary, organic assembly to which we must necessarily subordinate. This is just like the idea of the straight line, which is an abstraction brought to the concrete by the human mind—it does not exist in nature. Our idea of control of the terrestrial matrix is a costly illusion that has brought us to the current civilizational crisis. We are part of the truth; it is not up to us to say how things should be. It is up to us to discover and recognize the dynamics to which we belong. Only in this way can we guarantee our continuity as a species. If we lose the connection with the foundation—the root—we unravel in endless egocentric speculations.
Why do we not recognize being organized? What is the origin of the belief that thought can replace an organizational matrix present in everything alive and yet also contradict it?
Our lives could be significantly optimized if all the technological and scientific resources were at the service of the organization to which we belong. This seems to be precisely the role of man on this earth. Computer companies do not charge for their services because they sell their clients to companies that are their sponsors. If you do not pay for a product, you are the product. These companies profit by using profiling to suggest what those individuals ought to buy or how they should vote. They create a virtual space in which they detect individual weaknesses and manipulate them with data that uses psychological evaluations.
Fake news is part of this circus. It can determine political and economic processes but also distorts free will—it promotes opinion profiles based on computer programs of the collective mind. They create a reality of distorted collective opinion with news that is not only false but designed to elicit certain types of reactions in the mass media. The economic model of the big media companies is keeping people tuned into their screens and emptying their lives of content. These actions are designed to turn people into valuable automatons directed by a gigantic “big brother” that directs their collective perspectives and imagination. This is surveillance capitalism, and thousands of computer data determine the psychological profiles. It includes different human neuroses that allow manipulation of human actions and opinions. Surveillance capitalism is the product that computer companies sell. It has created the wealthiest individuals in the history of mankind, all for being the most efficient in controlling their users.
Harari is considered the guru of technological futurology. He states: “… It is essential to realize that the Artificial Intelligence revolution is not just about computers becoming faster and faster. Discoveries in life science and the social sciences drive it. The better we understand the biochemical mechanisms that underlie human emotions, desires, and choices, the more computers will be better at analyzing human behavior, predicting human decisions, and replacing drivers, bankers, and lawyers…”
I don’t know whether this is naiveté or malice, but Harari supposes goodwill in the configuration of artificial intelligence. This does not take into consideration that those motivated to make money managed have always managed it; they are the ones to determine the types of values to be programmed. According to their interests, the ethical codes of a machine are configured with the interests of those who have profited most in the history of the planet, and they have done so precisely with disinformation. Who would program these machines, and with what criteria? Would the growing control over the masses disappear by magic?
This is an invitation to question all beliefs and allow individuals to promote creativity. It is an invitation to improve education at every level because it is precisely the lack thereof that connects human beings to dependency. We live in an unpredictable reality. Those who wish to exercise control institute models and formulas that divorce the masses from the actual vital dynamics. They do so because they need to transform human actions into predictable behavior to exercise their power from the shadows.
