CagesOfTheMind

Cages of the Mind 

for the people who don't get it

‘transhumanism’ is everybody 

who left the forests, 

went to the plains, 

ate the mushrooms

learned how to 

rub sticks together

to make fire, 

transhumans are the ones who are using cars, 

transhumans are clothes wearers and hunters, 

transhumans are dishonest to hide magic in books 

so unborn people can be influenced by their vile ego, 

transhumans are the ones who reach for the stars 

instead of staying in the sea to feed the sharks, 

transhumans brush their hair and clean their teeth with tools, 

transhumans are characterised by their use of tools 

to expand potential latent in the original amoebic seed, 

transhumans is a very new word for a very old thing, 

we used to call it adaptation to improve the human condition. 

This is not the loss of humanity. 

We are only as human in the new land as we were in the last land. 

The humanity is that which we contain and bring with us. 

Those who fear the changes 

we will experience as we enhance 

and expand our potential, 

those who stay watching shadows in caves, 

we respect those too 

but sooner or later we realise, 

those are the ones 

who are only alive 

because we keep them in zoos

the cages of the mind

For the record,

I do not advise people to get a chip in your head 

The people who associate that with transhumanism

are asking for SnowCrash