by Max Igan
2012
from
TheCrowHouse Website
English
by
DervoC
July 6, 2014
from
Vimeo Website
Max Igan is a pen-name and you can find out a little
more about him
here.
Trance-Formation is
an important and brilliant movie that pulls "the big picture"
together... It's about the creation of a new "meme" and the
splitting of the world.
For those of you who aren't
familiar with the term "meme,"
it is largely defined as,
"an idea, behavior or style that spreads from
person to person within a culture" and "is an idea that behaves
like a virus - that moves through a population, taking hold in
each person it infects."
In a broader sense, and how it is eventually
described in the movie, Igan's "meme" becomes a cultural movement
and is a creation that results in the next really big evolutionary
step for humankind:
The Trans-Human.
Only, aspects of trans-humanism, as Igan powerfully points out, are
not likely to be a good thing. The last time humankind made an
evolutionary leap of this magnitude, other hominids disappeared from
the planet.
The "splitting" of the world comes from what are now the beginning
stages of what is called "Trans-Humanism."
From
Wikipedia, Trans-Humanism is,
"an international intellectual and cultural
movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of
fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and
making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to
greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological
capacities."
Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits
and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental
human limitations, as well as study the ethical matters involved in
developing and using such technologies.
They predict that human beings may eventually be able
to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded
abilities as to merit the label "posthuman."
Transhumanism is largely promoted by thinkers like
Ray Kurzweil, who popularized
the term, "The
Singularity," which describes the moment artificial
intelligence overtakes human intelligence. Scoffed at by many
scientists who say the human brain is too complex for this to
happen, transhumanism combines supercomputers with the neural paths
of the brain, bridging this limitation.
Part of the premise of the movie is that it would very easy for
"someone" to take control of people who are "enhanced" posthumans,
resulting in a totalitarianism that George Orwell and
Aldous Huxley could only hint at.
Another aspect of transhumanism probably well-known
to many of you is what would result in the complete subjugation and
dominance of nature.
In fact, one of the arguments for transhumanism is
that, using this technology to its ultimate expression, we can
create "God" and an earth-community of permanent peace.
They would do this through implanted computer chips
and ports integrated into the human bio-system and getting your dogs
and now your children to accept this technology through fear.
There are already people who are willing to
get chip transplants so they can
process the internet faster.
Advocates are also doing it by geo-engineering
through,
...and more.
There will be those who choose not to be enhanced, and another
premise the movie is that these non-enhanced humans could become the
modern day equivalent of the Neanderthal and may very well go
extinct.
Not that far out as we recall what man has done to more
primitive cultures all over the planet.
What transhumanism advocates probably get - and fear - is that we
humans are about to reach the capacity to touch God and to
become a peaceful planet, but it's just so much more in their
interest to give everyone a techno-lobotomy, and convince them that
they're happy, knowing their place is to serve... but serve who?
The masters of the planet,
the Powers That Be, the Elite.
But wait, won't they - and their children - be
affected, too? Yes, but they want to become posthuman, with
them in charge of the rest of us who do their bidding without
complaining or questioning.
What can we do about this?
We need as many people to wake up as possible,
do their work, and become the shift, the transition, shifting
naturally into a posthuman-like consciousness that can prevent this
from happening.
It is definitely time for us to grow up. Now.
Can that happen? In time? That is a very big
question.
This is an age-old story that is continuing to play out today in the
form of a dominating hierarchy that wants to subdue and control
nature and the universe - and the rest of us - and we play right
into it because we're experts at creating technologies that we don't
have the wisdom to control.
Español
by
Juan Taréis
Abril 16, 2012
del Sitio Web
YouTube
Max Igan es un seudónimo y se
puede conocer un poco más sobre él
aquí.
Trance-Formation es una importante y brillante película que
saca "el cuadro grande" junto... Se trata de la creación de un nuevo
"meme" y la división del mundo.
Para aquellos de ustedes que no están familiarizados con el término
"meme",
que se define en gran medida como,
"Una idea, comportamiento o
estilo que se propaga de persona a persona dentro de una
cultura" y "es una idea que se comporta como un virus - se mueve
a través de una población, agarrándose a cada persona que
infecta."
En un sentido más amplio, y cómo
finalmente se describe en la película, el "meme" de Igan se
convierte en un movimiento cultural y es una creación que da lugar a
la etapa evolutiva muy grande al lado de la humanidad:
el Trans-Humano.
Sólo, los aspectos del trans-humanismo, como poderosamente Igan
señala, es probable que no sea una buena cosa. La última vez que la
humanidad hizo un salto evolutivo de esta magnitud, otros homínidos
desaparecieron del planeta.
La "división" del mundo proviene de lo que ahora son las primeras
etapas de lo que se llama "Trans-humanismo."
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