transhumanism is the ideology of people who want to use technology to improve human life (make lifespan longer, prevent disease etc.), those very pretentious guys who freeze themselves after death because they believe revival will be possible in the future
to me its weird. most transhumanists seem to have the mindset that everybody should have these technologies? but at the same time most reject communism?
i think that as technology advances its kind of becoming unavoidable that we will have some people into this for real
like most technological advancements (Space travel, AI) its utopian in communism but hellish under capitalism…
i believe that if we move towards this type of reality, capitalism will do as capitalism does. they might put weird shit in our food or have weird psyops to convince the masses to cut off their legs because they NEED that new biomechanical biotech prosthetics and get in life ruining debt for it (they already do this in the US with normal healthcare…) and then use those without robot parts as the outsiders in the inevitable fascism liberalism turns into
under socialism, people will obviously not be forced into it and you could get the turbo speed wamth+AC robot 15 inch 350 gram c** and b**s set for free or atleast very low prices if you want to ascend your humanity
The thing is, “improving lives of humans” from like quality of life, public health, and life expectancy is things that dotps care about already, markedly at a demographic level (like it’s already baked into “public health”). The self-appointed transhumanists (primarily of the western techbro variety) have the hyperindividualist approach to these things and rationalize that their forays into x or y technologies to this end, that only the most privileged can even access, will “eventually” “trickle down” to the hapless and the poors and undeserving masses. Often the rationale includes mumbling the “rule” that technology gets cheaper as time goes on, all the while guarding and preventing downward/cheapening transfer/wider access by using social technologies like the institution of intellectual property.
a whole rabbit hole I don’t have time to revisit right now but lesswrongers, “rationalists”, “effective altruists” and idk what other schisms or subdivisions of that clade of thing, is something I highly associate with the word “transhumanist”