According to the satirist Lucian, Prometheus, created the first man with the help of the goddess Athena. Made from fire and clay, he was shaped after the image of the gods. The creation of the first man took place after the famed Clash of the Titans, and in the Orphic the clay used was a blend of soil watered down with the blood of the Titans. Jünger suggests that our era of “increasingly perfect technology” may be likened to the myth of Saturn, for just as Saturn devoured his own children, modern civilization devours its own security through its dependence on the very technology that unmoors its foundations.
Why, Jünger asks, does the “craving for security” that pervades the modern consciousness grow in step with technological progress? The answer must be that technology’s advocates have become cognizant of the inherent dangers of the forces they have set in motion. In Jünger’s words, “Modern man wakes up to the fact that the elemental forces he has enslaved in his machinery are turning against him with ever growing, viciously destructive force.”
In an interview Agamben discussed Transhumanism.
Transhumanism
More and more funding for science comes from the info tech sector. These are directing numerous researches towards the man-machine fusion which on the one hand represents a new market and on the other a new promise: potential human faculties and prolong life. What do you think of this progressive digitization and robotization of life?
I believe it is appropriate to consider the phenomenon you are talking about from the perspective of the development of the human species. Almost a century has now passed since a brilliant Dutch scientist, Ludwik Bolk, to whom we owe the idea of pedomorphosis or constitutive immaturity of homo sapiens, had foreseen that the technical apparatuses on which man increasingly relies in order to surviving as a species would reach a point of extreme exasperation where they would overturn into their opposite and end up causing the end of the species. Paul Alsberg already in the twenties of the twentieth century showed that in the external technological projection of the functions of the body organs, what actually happens is that these organs are progressively deactivated in favor of the artificial instruments that replace them. While the animal adapts its bodily functions to natural conditions, man deactivates them to entrust them to artificial instruments. Thus, every exosomatic technical progress corresponds to a regression of the endosomatic functions. But if this regression goes beyond a certain limit, the very survival of the species is called into question. I believe we are on this threshold today. But experience teaches that what seems inevitable does not always happen. In the words of Euripides: "what we expected has not been fulfilled and the gods find a way to the unexpected".
The French philosopher Jean Bise writes “The “death of God” no longer has here the death of man for correlative, but his “divinization,” which is just the counterfeit of his “deification” in the Holy Spirit. It really is a question of a substitution of humanity for divinity, a humanity that takes itself for the object of its own worship, and where Man, to repeat the words of Protagoras, has become the “measure of all things.” As a second Creator, he rethinks and redoes the world; intoxicated with his power, he applies the words of Christ to himself: “Behold, I make all things new.” The rational animal deifies himself and makes himself absolute in a logos that is no longer the Word but the only reason; his flight to the Moon is taken for the Ascension of Humanity. The “Holy Matter” denies God as the “motionless Mover” that sheds the universe; the “Holy Evolution” has God finding Himself being swept up into the rising “cyclone” of Matter: he is a “cosmogenesis” God, captive of the Existence and the Future he created. In times where inversion rules, only a counter religion can pass for religion. It can apparently continue to celebrate God: Man is exalted by it; it can evoke sacredness; this sacredness is the profane that passes for its opposite; it can announce the coming of the messianic times: these times in reality are not the dawn of tomorrow but the crepuscule of today. What is said of the “other Beast” applies to it: “He had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
Our epoch is Titanic. Promethean. Revolutionary. And Godless. Instead of a Mountain there are only the flats as everything humanity held sacred is cut down to the bare soil by other men. In the year 2020 A.D. the last war began between man born and man engineered. Extinction of the old human and improvement by the new.
The Arch Druid wrote “ Any symbolic pattern that has served as a focus for human emotion and energy will build up an egregore of its own over time, and the more energy that is put into such a pattern, the more potent the egregore that will form around it. The gods and goddesses of every religion, past and present, are at the centers of vast egregore charged with specific kinds of power. This power is defined by, and contacted through, the traditional symbolism of the deity in question." The concept was discussed in early Theosophical literature and is well-known in esoteric thought, but it is not a mainstream idea. In discussing egregores Helena Petrovna Blavatsky wrote “every thought so evolved with energy from the brain, creates nolens volens [willingly or unwillingly] a shape.” Continuing, she states that such a shape is absolutely “unconscious unless it is the creation of an adept, who has a pre-conceived object in giving it [the thought form] consciousness, or rather the appearance of consciousness derived from the adept’s will and consciousness.” Trans-humanism, is a social and philosophical movement devoted to promoting the research and development of robust human-enhancement technologies. Such technologies would augment or increase human sensory reception, emotive ability, or cognitive capacity as well as radically improve human health and extend human life spans. Such modifications resulting from the addition of biological or physical technologies would be more or less permanent and integrated into the human body. Prometheus the Titan as Egregore seen from one facet and Lucifer the light bringer from another.
RFK, Jr. “When I researched my book what I learned was that this [2019 pandemic simulation] event, Event 201, was not a one-time occurrence. We found 20 separate pandemic simulations beginning in 2000. One thing they had in common -- most of them Bill Gates was involved in, Tony Fauci was involved in -- but every one of them the CIA was involved in. The CIA wrote the script, high-level CIA officials participated in every one of those pandemic simulations.
And they involved hundreds of thousands of people. They were conducted secretly. They used frontline workers, they were training police, and hospital systems and utilities in Europe, in Italy, in Germany, in Canada, in Australia, all at the same time, to do a response to a pandemic, but it was not a public health response. It was a response to use the pandemic for something else.
So they practiced again and again and again: How to use the pandemic as a pretext for imposing totalitarian controls and for obliterating liberal democracy across the planet.”
https://www.technocracy.news/biodigital-convergence-the-pandemic-started-the-genetic-transformation-of-humanity/
Dugin
“So with object-oriented ontology, we’re dealing with the real truth, not with a lie. For the first time, modernity has told the truth about itself. What was before was a lie of modernity. Modernity lied to everybody. “Oh, we’re in favour of humanity. We’re in favour of life. We are trying to liberate human beings and nature from the transcendental fascist God”. That was a lie and not in favour of humanity but against humanity and God. The main idea was to liberate the Devil from the chains with which he was fixed in Hell. This was the liberation of the Devil, not of man, and now comes the moment to liberate the Devil from humanity and life. And that is object-oriented ontology that clearly, openly, explicitly affirms that, and they are object-oriented philosophers. They are closer to us traditionalists because we always saw in modernity this devilish, demonic aspect.
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
Thank you.