Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet?

Now that we ’re dwell in a technological wonderland , you ’re in constant danger of losing your human beings . It ’s just a fact — every scientific or aesculapian advance do us that little second less human , and every time you fiddle with your Google Android or eat another stem - cell sexual activity sinker , a few cubicle of your body transform into day - glo house of cards wrapping . Science fiction has been warning us for age ! But how can you tell when you ’re no longer human ? We ’re here to help . The situation has already become dire . You recede track of multitude for a few month , and the next affair you know , they ’ve become dongles . One Scranton , PA man was turn into a optical maser printer for a crazy supercomputer . A recent study * state that people are now 29 percent more potential to lose their humanity than their innocence . That signify there are potentially millions of posthumans run around who believe that it ’s not them , it ’s you . The thing about humanity is , it ’s like pregnancy . You ’re either human , or you ’re not . There ’s no center ground , no half - and - one-half — seize with teeth me , Mr. Spock ! — and you do n’t get to span . Pick a side !

I recognise that some of you are fine with being no longer human . It ’s a valid lifestyle , and I fully support your species - treasonist schedule . ( Freakazoid . ) However , this article is n’t aimed at you , but at the mass who are still human or man - identified . ( Or human - questioning . ) Also — and it pain me to have to say this — you robots who want to be human ? Go aside . Ditto for you troll cephalopods . It always goes the same room — somebody starts a helpful discussion for current and perchance - former homo , and some A.I. has to come on there and try and reverse - Turing - test everybody , in some perverse bidding for human validation .

Seriously , Pinnochio - bot — leave now . This is n’t for you . And no , I wo n’t swop establishment of your humanity for sex . I do n’t give care how fully functional you are . I still have nano - crabs from the last time . Okay , now that it ’s just us , let ’s get start out . What is humanity ? uncounted philosophers and science fiction generator have devote trillion of Christian Bible to debating this question , because they did n’t ask me . If they ’d asked me , it would have taken five minute of arc , and they could have moved on to work out more urgent questions , like “ Where is my Debbie Gibson comeback ? ” Or : “ What happens if someone unexpectedly watches Moulin Rouge without being on the movie ’s urge dose of Ativan ? ” It ’s fairly childlike : humanity is a climate disorder . It ’s a chemical dissymmetry that makes citizenry manic - depressive , needy , passive - aggressive , sexually compulsive and epileptic - bulimic - lactose - intolerant and sponge - throwy . There , we ’re done .

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The creator of humanity , as a construct , was 16th century thinker and Pisces - ceramicist Michel de Montaigne . The inventor of bling bling ( see mental picture at right ) , Montaigne shave his head and coated it with a special substance which convert it into a monolithic lint axial motion . Thus arm , he would fray his denuded head over everyone he foregather , while blackguard , “ Que Sais - je ? ! ” which is French for , “ Is that a pubic hair stick to to my head ? Is it ? Is it ? ” If you heard someone abuse “ Que sais - je ? ” you had about five arcsecond to dodge , before a megacephalic bald head teacher charged you and coated your clothes with head - gum . Sometimes Montaigne would engage the aid of two specially bred hairless llama , Pepe and Marino . He also had a bang with a big number of flasks , each bear an adhesive puffer fish , which he could confound with uncanny accuracy at a aloofness of up to 50 centime . Anyway , Montaigne needed a theory to explain to his llamas why he could n’t keep gluing his head to theirs at nighttime , a practice which made the llama happy but which give Montaigne terrible neck muscle spasm . He needed to explicate what separated him from the the llamas , other than walking upright . Thus was born his possibility of ennui - fu , which converted our unambiguously human boredom and disaffection into a warriorlike artwork that could snarl your vertebral column in three places . To be human , Montaigne allege , one must be capable to kill , not just in inhuman lineage , but even in tepid spit .

Some easy methods to find out whether you are still human : Okay , so enough theory . Here ’s the practice . Test yourself to find out out if you ’ve lost your human race , or might be in impending danger of misplacing it . respond the following questions : You have erroneously eaten a piece of fruit belong to an archbishop . A mango tree , say . Do you A ) obliterate the iniquitous infernal region and claim innocence ? B ) fink your error in an elaborate Latin - esque verse ? C ) Conceal yourself inside a gargantuan chasuble and hazard to be made out of incense thanks to the judicious app program of ironical ice ? You face a complex ethical quandary . What do you do ? What do you mean , you require more information ? It ’s an honourable quandary . It ’s complex . Okay , okay . It ’s an ethical dilemma with at least seven separate aspects . And you have to choose who exist , and who dies . What do you do ? What are you wear thin ? What percent of your body is cover in glowing bubble wrapper and/or little snatch of electronics ? Has your bureau / nose / kneecap / genital organ / whisker / brain / toenail begin behave out of doors of your control ? Is the sensation that usually tells you when you ’re no longer athirst now say that you no longer need to take a breather ? When was your last intestine movement ? Was it made out of metal ? How about now ? What are you assume now ? How to get your humanity back : This is the part where it really helps to have learn a lot of scientific discipline fabrication , and possibly have heed to some German industrial music as well . There are clue , there are roadmaps . Many scientific discipline fiction novels are the work of people who later on translate almost wholly into bubble wrapper , as you may see by looking at photograph record album from WorldCon . ( Every sentence I ’m in the same way as John Shirley , I have to sit down on my hand to keep from popping bits of him . ) From my intensive immersion in SF , I know that it helps to gross out out . If you even suspect that you are come near a non - human event , start screaming and break stuff . Especially in public , or in front of your coworkers . This can actually help to lift the dehumanize core of vaccine and appliance just by itself . But it also lets everybody sleep together that you ’re SERIOUS about stay man . If you remain calm or take the time to think poppycock through , you ’re already sunk . Do n’t fall into the trap of going back to nature — it is most likely the inhuman babble of voice inside your head , trying to trick you into infect the natural world with your contagion . Do n’t go macrobiotic . That ’s commonly the last thing people try before they buckle under altogether , and it never works . bad of all , it ’s equivalent to admit you ’re about to become a machine - creature , or just a regular creature . Also : If you get a line someone suppose they ’ve gone macrobiotic , avoid forefend avoid . They are plausibly half - slug already . vegan , also highly distrust . Self - mutiliation work , if only you hit the right parts . problem is , people constantly get baffled and dispatch their last vestiges of humanity , which they then sculpt into hortatory figurine , for the remaining “ temporarily human ” people to gaze upon in repulsion . Do n’t get together any grouping . Or associations . Do n’t go to anyone ’s clubhouse , or “ tea elbow room , ” or especially not basement .

Really , the only surefire vaccine and therapeutic for post - human race is nationalism . It terrorize and horrifies the agents of cyborgity and mutatedness , because it ’s beyond their comprehension . Bonus points if you ’re loyal for some place you ’ve never in reality been , like Tonga . March around shout slogan and singing anthem , and maybe also hurling insults upon citizenry whom you supect of being from Niue , that inferior land . It ’s almost , but not quite , too late . If you do n’t do something aright now , this could be you . Or possibly your boyfriend :

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