Dr. J. Budziszewski

It's another evasion maneuver to sort of not talk seriously about God.

You play with video games all the time and you think all this stuff is cool and we're going to be putting chips into our brains and making ourselves smarter and we're going to do this and we're going to do that and we're going to live forever.

And how cool if everything that we see is just a big video game.

There are people who claim that they can't wait.

Yeah.

I think some people would.

Yeah.

Some proponents of this, there was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal.

It's amazing.

One tends to think of the Wall Street Journal as a more conservative publication, although its news division is actually pretty liberal.

One tends to think at least of its editorial page as pretty conservative, but they're very, very pro-transhumanism.

They publish a lot of pro-transhumanist stuff.

And one such article about, oh, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that.

I don't have much of a sense of duration.

These people were gung-ho for the transhumanist revolution.

They said, and they thought that it was inevitable.

They said, what general would not welcome the prospect of soldiers who never had to sleep and who couldn't disobey their orders?

What parents could resist if the other parents were all putting implants for increased concentration on tests and their kids didn't have them?

That's right.

So they say, it's going to happen.