Monkey's Paw

People caught up in Superlative Technology sub(cult)ural movements should sniff the trends in the wind -- like the good futurologists they claim to be -- when a parody like this one cracks up people across the mainstream technoprogressive blogosphere…

Self-identified "Transhumanist" types have long expressed an inexplicable fingernails-across-the-chalkboard enthusiasm for the ongoing public association of their sub(cult)ural techno-politics with figures from across the Rightwing political spectrum, from unrepentant irrational exuberants and libertechians to neoliberal bomb-builders and technocrats, folks like Glenn Reynolds, William Safire, Newt Gingrich, Virginia Postrel, Tom Friedman and so on. Among the better and brighter "Democratic Transhumanists," this enthusiasm is replaced by what is often worse, misguided support for and alliances with the very same sorts of figures, mobilizing a bland indifference to political substance that fancies itself, of all things, sensibly "tactical."

I've sounded warnings on this topic before. No doubt there are many more to come.