Worldview for the small intellectual elite

Transhumanism can be a revelelation for those who can get to its core values and see its future. I'm a privileged degree standard, information rich, white, early 30's man from the UK who has A-levels in physics and electronics but still it wasn't easy going for me!

Transhumanism thinking

I agree with simul, on rights and re his assertion that: "a true transhumanist is someone who knows that technology can be applied to all areas of human endeavor. Philosophy and religion, themselves, are technologies."

But, I seem to be quite alone in my awareness of the fact that the common man is severely mentally retarded - from birth. Retarded, not just from his upbringing nor from his complement of memes. His ability to host memes is limited by his genes. I too was ignorant of this fact for the first thirty-five years of my life. Then I did some extensive slumming with accountants, lawyers, dentists, teachers, and all of the even-more-common members of my species. I put myself in a position to be privy to their ways of "thinking". I can assure you all that they do not have what it takes to become hosts of transhumanist memes.

Low profile of transhumanism

Still not enough people know that this is a hot issue and there is a movement.

Turns out I've been a transhumanist all my life and never even knew it! And that is the primary problem that I see transhumanism facing right now. Other than Kurzweil, who I had heard of in other contexts, but never got around to reading until recently (along with the rest of the transhumanist canon over the last few months), I had never heard of anyone of the other non- fiction writers, nor the cause they espouse, and I consider myself both well read and informed. Of course I had read novelists like John Wright, Dan Simmons, Greg Bear, etc., and was well aware of the concepts in fiction, but I never knew there was an existing movement. And when I Googled the movement, along with other related words, the outsider's perception was not very positive.