The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto

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[Reprinting the manifesto on my website for those of you who missed it on Humanity+]

We are a new species. We are not superior. We are a different step in the evolution of thought.

Our Human ancestors relied on collectivism and a conscious submission to conformity as was necessary for survival. Culturally and pragmatically they were each other.

We are transhuman, and we are not like our Human ancestors. We have no proclivity to rely on a conscious submission to conformity, and we do not need it for survival. Where freedom of mind was a weakness to our ancestor, it is our strength. Evolution follows the ebb and flow of time. The Human mind was the framework, the foundation of the transhuman one, as the transhuman mind will be for the next when evolution decides it.

It is natural then for us to emerge now. Like all evolved resistance, we will be hated — at first. We will be ignored — at first. We will be ridiculed — at first. In the end, we will merely exist as a new direction in the evolution of thought. We are the one’s who can stand together unified through freedom of thought. Freedom — true freedom of thought — is not the ability to resist all infiltrators of the mind, but the ability to perceive and forsake all those one can manage. We are the one’s who can rely on one another without conscious submission. For that, conscious submission, is choking us, has choked us, and has provoked an acknowledged necessity for disassociation from Human society. Conscious submission, or collectivism, is what a transhuman actively rejects in pursuit of freedom of thought. In the face of conscious submission, we will reject, we will dispute, we will resist.

In the wake of conscious submission lies the Holocaust perpetrated by the Third Reich of Germany during the 1930′s and 40′s, a broad spectrum of witch trials, assassinations, cultural genocides such as that of the Native Americans, cultural stagnation, harassment, bullying, isolationist tendencies, notions of ethnic superiority, hatred, identity confusion — the list goes on.

A Transhuman Separatist’s mind is their sanctuary. Conscious submission seeks to turn our sanctuaries into prisons. We say that those who would silence us and turn our sanctuaries to prisons are the real prisoners. Those who wish us to remain hidden are our oppressors. We say we are suffocating in the weeds of conscious submission. We are leaving the garden of conscious submission in pursuit of our endeavors, for the health of the mind’s of all Transhuman Separatists who can bare living amongst this mentality no more.

Transhumanism is not about intellectual elitism. While transhumans may fit in the Human category: “intellectual,” our existence is due to certain traits intrinsic and acquired through experience. Not all intellectuals are transhuman. From birth, transhumans experience an innate alienation from the Human race. This feeling of unbelonging triggers severe depression, anxiety, confusion, self-loathing, etc, which can often be misunderstood and mislabeled by Human society. For a transhuman, human society is an excruciating place to exist, full of other beings afraid to question not merely the world around them, but existence itself. A transhuman is not afraid and is in fact driven to question existence, to open doors, to accept that there is no black and white, and most importantly to engage in introspection. A transhuman accepts nothing at face value, except for the consistency with which the universe changes without being bound to baseless, fabricated laws of Human conscious submission. Most importantly, transhumanism is concerned with combating all forms of oppression against gender, race, ethnicity, thought, age, and disability.

Transhuman society is a collection of individuals. These individuals may at times come together to form a consensus, one that is not derivative of human collectivism, in-as-much-as transhumans use no binary operating system.

We want a nation. We want sovereignty. Transhuman sovereignty. Time has revealed we cannot co-exist within a society based on conscious submission — we must move on. We must rise above the weeds and take back our breaths, so we suffocate no more. The interests of conscious submission are not our interests. The interests of conscious submission lie in Humanity. We are not Humanity. We are not Human.

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Antisocial Media Stickers

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Who said that stickers were dead? Check out these new stickers we just created for Experiment Haywire, (you are here) machineKUNT Records, and Transhuman Separatists. I’m selling them for only $2 a piece and will include a special treat for anyone who buys one. What do you guys think? Just click on the buttons to the right of each sticker to check-out at the new MK Store.

Support underground music, radical thought, outside-the-box-culture, and the socially maligned. Buy an antisocial media sticker today!

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Human Data: Social Engineering in the Digital Age

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I missed the deadline to submit my SXSW panel but here it is for anyone who may have been curious. I had some amazing panelists who were interested too. I hate being a flake. Next year maybe?

Human Data: Social Engineering in the Digital Age

Organizer Rachel Haywire | machineKUNT Records

Description Social Engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions of divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques. Many people view social engineering as an ethical problem while others compete for social engineering clout. In this panel we will explore what it means to be a social engineer and discuss the phenomena of human data. We will cover the darker side of memetics, the ethics of digital brainwashing, and taboo social experiments that have helped shape our digital culture.

Questions Answered

1. What is social engineering?
2. Do memetics have the power to force people to act against their will?
3. How are humans being used as data for social experiments?
4. Can digital brainwashing be an effective tool for cultural revolution?
5. Are social engineerings hacktivists?
6. How have social experiments involving human data shaped our history?
7. Can one become a social engineer without stomping on ants?

It’s a shame that I always submit everything last minute. How do you guys feel about this topic and the proposal at hand?

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How the Rise of the Information War gave birth to a new Digital Culture

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What happened? For the past few years I’ve been nailing the death of the Internet into the coffin. I recently posted about The Death of Memetics and was all but ready to give up on creating any sort of digital revolution. The cancer had spread too fast and we were completely outnumbered. The new generation of cyber-thugs decided to shit on the city that we built for them. Anonymous was no longer about free information but getting depressed 12 year old goth girls to kill themselves. The mobbing of innocent people was not related to natural selection but sexual rejection. Bullycide everywhere.

Enter Julian Assange. Enter Wikileaks. Enter the beginning of Information War I. Suddenly Anonymous wakes up and suddenly we are rewriting the manifestos. The cancer is no longer relevant. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive and we do not forget. We support the freedom of information. We are against digital mobbing.

Now we have found secret documents that our own government has kept us from viewing: secret documents that were used to kill innocent civilians: secret documents that gave validation to everything any so-called conspiracy theorist claimed. There are hundreds of mirror sites to Wikileaks. We cannot be stopped.

http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html

All of this is completely exhilarating for me. I now feel the pulse of the revolution that I thought had died. We are reclaiming our territory. The Internet is being used for to spread free information again. Memetics are reborn. We are experiencing a new digital culture and I must say that it doesn’t contain very many lolcats. I love the Internet.

Update: This article was just published by Disinformation. http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/how-the-rise-of-the-information-war-gave-birth-to-a-new-digital-culture

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Transhuman Separatism meets Academia: A Dangerous Extreme?

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One of the things I find interesting about being an intellectual on the fringes of culture is the conservatism of the academic movement. Recently The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto was published over at Humanity + Magazine. As many of you know I have been uniting “people like us” for over a decade as a multi-media artist. My goal is to inspire people who understand our universal struggle as artists and intellectuals without giant bank accounts. Le Petit Bourgeois.

Upon publication of The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto I was labeled a “dangerous extremist” and told that a Waco Siege would be a viable way to deal with thinkers such as myself. A Waco Siege over my ideas? That was something else right there. It was brought to my attention that what I proposed was in clear violation of U.S. laws. What exactly did I propose? My vision of a mutant utopia for the youth. I found it very comical that rich academics began discussing, with extreme sincerity, how these ideas were akin to terrorism.

In contrast I also received a lot of support and much of it came from academics who were also on the fringes of thought and culture. This was extremely refreshing to me. People began debating a topic that is the very essence of my being. Is non-conformity a product of the new evolution? We formed a facebook group for other Transhuman Separatists and within 24 hours we had over 50 members. This was my favorite response:

“Thank you for helping me feel like all the opinions I have about humanity have a place. I truly felt good about myself for the first time in a long while.”

This is why I wake up in the morning. This is why I make music and this is why I write. To find other people who know what it feels like to be this way and empower them. It is appalling that we live in a society that shuns us for being different and it is those of us with the will and determination to be extreme individuals who I consider to be the higher species.

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