Dr. J. Budziszewski

So is he more a person than this one?

You've already got an implicit caste system.

Now back to transhumanism.

One theorist, I think the term has become general, had said that as this is proceeding along, the people who can afford, this isn't going to happen, he didn't see it as happening through top-down government intervention, but by consumer choice.

The people who can afford to get their kids all hooked up with monkey genes for stronger muscles and all this kind of stuff.

They will be the gene rich.

It'll start out as physical wealth, monetary wealth, but it'll be converted into genetic wealth.

And then at the other end of the scale, there will be the gene poor.

So you're going to have a new caste system, much more powerful than anything that we've ever historically seen.

Yeah, yeah.

With the underground.

Right, right.

Although in this case, it would be more like C.S.

Lewis's imagination of this in The Abolition of Man, which was a great and prescient book.

there were only two people in two people in his era that were really writing about transhumanist huxley who was a transhumanist and invented the term transhumanist and said this is going to be great and lewis who i don't think he used the term transhumanism but he says no this if it could happen would be awful but he uh but he described the the innovators he said people people think that this is going to make us more free somehow well

If I'm the... Somebody has to be plugging in the chips.

Somebody has to be designing the chips.

Who are they?

The people who are receiving them aren't free.

You know, they're getting them.