Why Nietzsche’s Superman stands AGAINST Silicon Valley’s Transhuman Project
The simplest way to create a Superhuman would be to apply scientific thinking to biology, nutrition, and eugenics - but this is taboo
If a society did this, you could lift any nation to its maximum potential strength and beauty within three generations - some examples:
The Dutch were quite a short people in 1750 averaging around 5’ 6”
Nowadays they are the tallest nation on earth, I often meet Dutch women who are the same height as me (let me slip in here that I’m 6’ tall)
Speak to anyone from Holland and they’ll tell you their diet growing up was dairy rich: they had milk everyday in school and a huge amount of cheese
This calcium and protein heavy diet leads to exceptional growth
Consider another case study: the Indians
The India population was smaller than Europe’s population in 1950
Europe had 500 million people, and the Indians had 450 million people
Since then, the Indians have put 50 years of focus on better agriculture
They specifically focused on a “White Revolution” where they maxxed out their local dairy production
Meanwhile most of Europe has allowed limp dicked bureaucrats to propagandise them with the idea that cholesterol is bad, milk is allergenic, and meat is bad for the climate
Today, the Indians have 4 times the population of Europe at 1.4 billion people and have become the largest nation in all of human history
Our bodies can change fast and bigly
Our nations can change just as fast, and our nations have more of an effect on our bodies because they dictate how we are born and nourished during childhood
If there was any seriousness in our culture we would be maximising the health of our youth to make them stronger: strength is the answer to suffering
You could make your sons tall like Dutchmen (or at least close) but our moral taboos in the West have closed these avenues of thinking:
Eugenics is evil
Nutrition is weighed down by the heavy chain of moral projects like climate change and punishing the west for colonialism
Health maxxing is fascism
All we would need to do to save mankind from quite a lot of suffering is to have the mental strength to reevaluate our morality: this was Nietzsche’s assertion
If you let go of all taboos and focused on making your people as strong as possible, you would save them from enormous amounts of suffering, and out of them would come individuals so strong they would seem superhuman
The 2 metre tall Dutchman goes travelling in Indonesia and the 5’4” locals look up at him in awe… there are European schools in Arabia where the locals call the teachers Jinn (demons) because they are so tall
The average height of man across the world is 5’6” he so the Dutchman has “superhuman” height
Everyone wants to have these powers, everyone wants to be stronger, but noone wants to challenge taboos: challenging taboos is dangerous and requires a huge dose of courage and creative thinking
I speak about this at length in this podcast with Warrior Philosopher and Lance
The Psychology of the Tech-Head
Tech-heads also want to become stronger and superhuman. They want to blast past the limitations of the average human condition
But the Tech-head as a type is not mentally strong enough to challenge deep taboos of his culture head on. He is too afraid and uncreative to reevaluate his culture’s values.
Instead of a mental paradigm shift, Tech-heads try find a morally safe “workaround” to creating a stronger human
They try to improve mankind through “hacks” and innocent “tech updates” that never threaten the goal of enhancing strength.
Instead, they are fixing disabled people: the most moral act imaginable.
The Libtard Ubermensch will be a botched cripple who gets a superhuman robotic arm with a neuralink control system
Since all our taboos all involve embracing mankind’s animal nature: eugenics, health, and enhancing strength - the spiritually avoidant Transhuman project has to declare its goal is not to reevaluate the value of animal magnetism, but instead to promise to “get free” from the animalistic part of mankind
Musk has 8+ IVF children
Through IVF you can now scan embryos using Ai to assess the IQ, height, and even disease resistance of the embryos. You can now do highly precise eugenics.
But, test tubes babies are a bizzare way to carry out eugenics, this gives many an uncanny feeling
Isn’t there a point where the more savage animalistic way of doing eugenics is actually more “human”?
But moral taboos do not permit this, so mad Scientists have to try break the mold within the confines of brainless moral restrictions
This all means that the “people” created by the trans-mankind project will be a lab created half-machine lifeform with all animal evil edited out
Morality cannot be anti-eugenics, because evolution is a permanent and neutral force. We are always being selected by various pressures and therefore evolving.
Our morality simply guides this selection. Morality shapes social institutions and decisions. It decides which men get rewarded and which ones get ostracised.
All morality selects, which is why our anti-eugenic morality will simply select for a weirder type of human.
This is why the answer to our problems lie behind psychological strength. Technology can only amplify our moral choices.
If our morals are wrong, technology will allow us to rapidly follow them down into hell.
Jordan Peterson makes huge mistakes on these topics, going so far as to say Nietzsche was wrong - I lay seige to his ideas in this premium podcast:
Silicon Valley’s Eugenics
The meme you hear Tech-heads blurt out is that the cyborg or the Ai robot will “replace” mankind in the order of living creatures. A new techno species will come.
This sounds like “based eugenics” no?
You’ll be surprised to Nietzsche directly opposed this anti-human notion:
“The problem that I set here is not what shall replace mankind in the order of living creatures (—man is an end—): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future”
Instead of trying to morph yourself into a denatured cyborg, Nietzsche wanted you to have the courage to embrace and maximise what you are.
Don’t try photoshop your animal nature out of yourself, ask how you can enhance that nature and allow it to express with more intensity.
To drive home what Nietzsche meant, consider his idea that Supermen already appeared in history “by accident”:
“In isolated cases, under the most widely different cultures, a higher type certainly manifests itself; Something which, compared to mankind in the mass, appears as a sort of superman”
Our Nature can already generate Supermen
Supermen have burst out on occasion all throughout history: people who display shocking genius, will, or bravery
Transhumans have never appeared before, they are a speculative “promise”
The question is, we have NEVER oriented our entire society towards selecting FOR either of these specimens, because we have never had the technological power to do so.
Now that we hold it in our hands we can reforge ourselves in only a few short decades, like India exploding in size. Technological society means an increase in power.
But what are we aiming at? What is our great goal? Salvation of the crippled and the broken? The last will indeed be first as Christ prophesied?
Perhaps this is the path we will have to follow and its better to accept that what will be will be…
But take a stern note: since we so religiously avoid our moral taboos we’re at the point where we would rather drill metal into a man’s skull to “redeem him” instead of trust the taboo wisdom of his flesh
As a 6'9" dutchman I can tell you being tall isnt always that great. I've probably grown about 1.5 inches over the years just from the bumps on my head from hitting my head on door frames so often.
This was excellent