definitely that but also something else …
they aren’t just elitist, they are also transhumanist …
and now actually i am seeing a new and disturbing trend which doesn’t seem to have a label yet but i would describe it as transnaturist in the sense that they now want to play G_d with nature itself …
remember the movie Snowpiercer ?
remember how it starts with the elites using a novel technology to cool the planet and accidentally freezing it wiping out all life ?
Bong Joon Ho ( Director ) is a really smart guy because we’re literally headed in that direction right now …
That’s the basic question asked in both the Essay that precipitated this thread as well as in that Harari / Zizek interview / debate - the question is whether Nature should be treated as something G_dlike, inherently wise, not to be messed with …
or whether Nature, like man, should be treated as imperfect, just an accident, and something that we can improve …
i honestly didn’t see this coming because the Elites themselves are the ones who came up with Earth Worship as our new global religion to replace Christianity and Islam, telling us we must sacrifice everything to prevent the ostensibly perfect climate from shifting by even one degree, or to prevent the ostensibly perfect sea levels from rising by just one meter and so on …
now they are essentially doing a complete 180 and saying Nature is NOT perfect, it does NOT matter how nature USED TO BE all that matters is how we are going to engineer it going forward …
so they’re shifting goal posts … rather than wiping out human activity to preserve nature in its original perfect state now we are going to use human intervention to perfect nature …
OK who am i kidding - we will use both ! We will both wipe out global economy to prevent it from interfering with nature and then we will go and interfere with nature on purpose.
After all, since when do Elites care whether their BS rationalizations make any sense or not ? They do whatever they want and the job of the masses is to not understand the obvious with the help of professors and experts.