In just a few decades, the birth control pill destroyed a system of sexual morality that had endured for millennia. First of all, body and soul are not so easily separable. Thiel, who describes himself as a “somewhat heterodox” Christian, answered that “some sense of a certain type of progress of history is a deep part of Christianity” and that the idea of an unchanging human nature belongs more “in the classical than the Christian tradition.” He went on to claim that “the Christian critique of transhumanism should be that it’s not radical enough, because it’s only seeking to transform our bodies and not our souls.” “How do we prevent runaway tech changes dragging us into some monstrously inhuman dystopia?” Harrington asked. But then the interview took a strange turn. Meanwhile, “there’s been limited progress in the world of atoms.” And it’s been more interior, atomizing and inward-focused,” Thiel said. “We’ve had continued progress in the world of computers, bits, internet, mobile internet, but it’s a narrow zone of progress. As Harrington puts it, Thiel’s diagnosis of modern social ills is not that “progress is inevitably self-destructive,” but that we’ve been making the wrong kind of progress. What got me thinking about this was right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel’s recent interview with Mary Harrington, which she wrote up in UnHerd. The way I see it, there are two options for the future: a transplanetary society or a transhuman one.
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