I assert that it is possible to be "transhumanist" - which is to say, interested in and generally approving of research into life-extension and body-elaboration technology - without being particularly sympathetic to neoreaction.
i mean, the whole theonomist sector, yeah, not that i have any idea how that coexists with technocommercialist nrx without an exothermic reaction of biblical proportions
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I recognize it may sound like a stretch, but I'd assert that transhumanism is not inherent (despite common association) even to technocommercialism. I'd paint the relation as follows: NRx is concerned with efficient allocation of resources which could allow for transhumanism
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i agree with you that it doesn't seem inherent to any part of it, just commonly associated — especially with the highest-profile, least-despised figures, and everybody knows it's the celebrities that count
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Agreed. I don't mean to deny that they're closely related, nor do I think it substantially counters her claim about the relationship between death anxiety, NRx, Transhumanism
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i don't actually think it does; the ethnonationalist and theonomist programs are unambiguously immortality projects of a much better-established, we could say traditional, sort than transhumanism
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i mean, i think you're right that she doesn't entirely grasp what she's onto, but she's definitely onto something; i suspect that something is more like that transhumanism is the technocommercialist nrx answer to trad nrx's trad immortality projects
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"Trad nrx immortality projects." Ok, having some cognitive dissonance here. Not that that's a _bad_ thing...
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