WESLEY SMITH: Homo Sapiens, Get Lost - Anti-humanism comes to Hollywood. When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel, Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even realize what has been lost.”
Huxley believed we would evolve into a society steeped in radical hedonism — where drugs would be used to erase every negative emotion and promiscuity would be not just common but the norm.
He also saw us as becoming profoundly utilitarian and eugenic, depicted in his novel by genetically engineered babies being decanted through a cloning-type process rather than being born, and then propagandized rather than educated, so as never to question the existing order. Huxley’s Brave New World is a society without families, without the old and sick — who are done away with rather than cared for — and without real purpose other than experiencing transitory pleasure.
Looking around, can we have any doubt of Huxley’s prescience?
... Over the last few hundred years in the West, the moral foundations of society were profoundly pro-human. Judeo-Christian moral philosophy and secular humanism both promoted human flourishing and the protection of individual rights as primary purposes of society.
But in recent years we have witnessed a rebellion against “human exceptionalism” — the view that ultimate moral value comes with being a member of the human species.
Spain, for example, has passed the Great Ape Project into law, declaring that chimpanzees and gorillas are part of the “community of equals” with people.
Switzerland has declared that individual plants have “intrinsic dignity” and that “decapitating” wildflowers is a great moral wrong. Ecuador’s new constitution provides for “rights of nature” that are equal to those of Homo sapiens.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a website called “Planet Slayer” aimed at children. It features “Dr. Schpinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator,” which helps kids add up their carbon score, a game that ends with a “carbon hog” bloodily exploding. Above its remains a legend appears, telling the respondent how much longer he can live before he will have used up his “share of the planet.”
Here and abroad, environmentalism itself seems to be evolving from a movement dedicated to conserving resources, preserving pristine areas, and protecting endangered species into an anti-humanistic ideology that increasingly disdains humankind as a scourge that literally threatens the existence of “the planet.”
This subversion of environmentalism was conceived and gestated in the Deep Ecology movement, inspired by Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss in the 1970s. Næss promoted an “environmental egalitarianism” based on the belief that nature and its constituent parts should be given equal consideration with human beings.
SMITH GOES ON TO ANALYZE A FEW RECENT HOLLYWOOD MOVIES WHICH PREACH AN ANTI-HUMANIST ENVIRONMENTALISM -
THE HAPPENING, THE REMAKE OF
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL AND MIGHT BE APPLIED TO
LIFE AFTER PEOPLE. RTWT.- I THINK A CIVILIZATION WHICH LAUDS HOMOSEXUALS AND DERIDES HOMO SAPIENS IS HEADED FOR DISASTER. EITHER VIA SUICIDE AT THE HANDS OF LEFT-WING ENVIRO-NAZIS OR GENOCIDE AT THE HANDS OF JIHADISTS.
- WHICH IS WHY I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT WE NEED TO DEFEAT THE LEFT AT HOME IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE JIHADIST ABROAD.
- A LITTLE HOMINOCENTRISM IS ESSENTIAL IF WE WANT TO SURVIVE.
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