Monsanto: God's Gift To Humanity, Picking Up God's Slack
Monsanto: God’s Gift To Humanity, Picking Up God’s Slack
This short parody of a Monsanto commercial will inevitably make hardcore transhumanists and GMO supporters squirm, but the point of this post is not to alienate such people, just laugh about the situation.
The bigger point here is to comment on the clear and unnecessary
polarization between transparency activists and mainstream supporters of
such initiatives as GM and transhumanism. You might not initially see
the link between the two so I’ll try to explain.
The video below makes fun of Monsanto for thinking it can cheat
death. The genetic modification they do with seeds allows crops to live
without water and in highly toxic environments, among other things.
Usually, to stereotype slightly, GMO
supporters and transhumanists both usually side with mainstream
establishment science under almost every circumstance. They think that
science and technology and the regulatory agencies we currently have in
place are totally trustworthy and sufficient. That’s just unaccetable
from the perspective of transparency activists who simply advocate for
clear labeling and open data in regard to GM food and experimentation.
Who, realistically, could possibly argue with such a rational
perspective as transparency? What is the point of trusting regulatory
agencies if better systems could be implemented?
In regards to transhumanism, the same principle applies. It’s about
having access to the data and source code of the experiments. If that
occurs, then there’s really no issue because the projects will be under
the scrutiny and accountability of the public. Both transhumanism and
GMO projects must be open source and transparent in order to have any
argument whatsoever about altering genetics of life on Earth
It’s not a matter of being pro and anti GMO or transhumanism. It’s a
matter of transparency in those fields which are forever a part of human
society and have been since our dawn, whether we ‘labeled’ them that
then or not. No pun intended.
Personally it seems that the argument for transparency and more
thorough testing before release into the biosphere is totally rational.
Why should I or other innocent humans have to be exposed to sketchy GM pollen
if it hasn’t had long term testing done? Yes it requires years of
patience, but irresponsible dev of biotech is possible suicide for our
species.
