Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance.
Interested viewers are invited to check out the following talk by Yuval Harari, white male Israeli historian and author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014):
On his personal website, and consistent with Extropian / Trans-Humanist rhetoric and belief in a technologically-driven transcendence, Harari states the following:
History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods.
Although the lecture is rabidly scientistic, and despite tacit assumptions of a singular historical trajectory and somewhat uncritical engagement with biological evolutionism, the central point being made in the talk is important, viz. that a commitment to Enlightenment / ‘secular’ liberalism is a necessary, if not sufficient, enabling condition for the emergence of ideologies postulating the transcendence of humanism to post-/trans-humanist futures which will only exacerbate ‘gaps’ / ‘divides’ between people.
While it might be argued from an Islamic perspective that human reality is as it was, arguably this is not relevant in terms of understanding the mythic narrative that is the hegemonic / dominant weltanschauung (worldview) of the contemporary era – a narrative which presents itself as global capitalism, but masks an actuality of modernity/coloniality or Global Systemic Racism (White Supremacy). In short, what is important in this presentation is the discourse that is being constructed and the mobilization of this discourse in pursuit of certain ends.
I should like to suggest that if the existential philosopher Martin Heidegger was even partially correct in asserting that “Language is the house of Being; it is that in which Being dwells”, then sociologist Max Weber’s ‘iron cage’ of modernity (and/or coloniality) is being re-constructed – or rather, re-configured – according to an informational / computational hyper-techno-logic, i.e. a refinement / adaptation of the modus operadus of White Supremacy (Racism) for purposes of maintaining and expanding this globally operating system.
Interested viewers are also invited to check out the following talk by Harari:
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