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This book is about the anthropic epoch and the extinction vortex we
are witnessing. Currently a mass extinction of species is
occurring. At the same time a mass extinction of languages and
cultures is also occurring. These two mass extinctions, biological
and cultural, are linked. Currently, transhumanists hope against
hope to upload their minds into virtual reality to escape death.
Both extinctions and the plan to escape them by uploading our minds
into computer networks are rooted in a narcissistic delusion of
immortal self-actualization. This is a pathetic death-defying
delusion of late modernity - hypertrophic selfishness. The common
denominator is a particular culture that has become dominant,
spreading across the globe. As it transcends the world-system. This
is the absurdity of the most profound delusional accomplishment of
the anthropic epoch, the extinction vortex. The more powerful and
individualistic we become the more power we crave, and the faster
the extinction vortex spins us with it.
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