Part two is available here - www.michaelnayna.com/p/mary-harrington-in-the-cyborg-theocracy-325

Harrington is absolutely brilliant. We need her so much right now. Thanks to all.

This is one of the most fascinating and horrifying things I’ve ever seen. Great job.

Being someone who doesn't watch TV, I'd not seen that govt funded COVID awareness ad until now. Pretty intense 30 second emotional experience..

Unexpected. I love these "meta perspectives" that climb out of the pit of arguing about specific ideological claims and noticing the larger pattern.

This one slipped past my radar at first, but thankfully I noticed it tonight. Watched both parts and, I gotta say, it's great to see you back in action with intensely thought provoking ideas!

Sorry to comment twice, but we have NOBODY in opposition to those ideologies of concern who actually understands them. That’s been a problem for a while. Typically when someone is deep enough in the critical theory direction to be able to truly understand it, they’ve become anointed and have far too much to lose if they were even capable of stepping back and criticizing the “critics of everything”. I think this woman is likely to be VERY important and I’m going to look into her work as soon as I send this comment.

Great to have you back. This is terrific.

Wow. Brilliant piece of film.

Michael, this is absolutely astonishing. I've been wondering what you'd been up to lately. You'd been on my radar since your magnificent work on the Grievance Studies affair & the Evergreen Meltdown. Mary Harrington just blew me away. What a deep, insightful, resolute mind. She might be the missing intellectual link within this conundrum. James Lindsay bacame the historian; Peter looks at young minds; Michael fights on the christian front; Heather & Bret hold the evolutionary biology flank. But Mary attacks the issue head on, weaving all aspects of technocratic fallacy & social constructivism into a tight bundle of contradictions that she then proceeds to elegantly untangle within minutes. What a magnificent person. Thank you both.

That is some horrifying artwork in the thumbnail...

Mike this is such amazing content. I’m back to watch it for what might be the 5th or 6th time. It’s criminal that there’s only 10k views. Please do more of these. Superb interview and the artful way that you edit it together is incredible. The part where youval is talking, what you did there is something special.

One of the two channels I have the bell notifications on.

I am very excited about this video. I’m not aware of her or any of her work but her ideas resonate tremendously with me and I think she’s brought us many steps closer to finding an accurate narrative of making sense of the current state of affairs and our trajectory. Although I’m not exactly thrilled to have a new, well articulated, highly probable apocalyptic concern lol This is probably the one that should be of the most concern because of the likelihood that these trends converging is very likely to be some kind of sci-fi Divine Comedy with some in Paradiso and others in the Inferno. When it comes to racial politics, we can also see the lack of empathy based on the internal dignity of each individual being replaced by intersectional check boxes being the only road to having value and empathy in your direction, and that’s not to say anything done for any groups will actually result in a better life because it’s all so reductionist and ironically, essentialist! You are given value by this or that arbitrary label you might fall under regardless of ANY personal experience of suffering at the hands of society at large. Maybe the most intersectional will be like a Brahman priestly caste of the cyborg theocracy, and white cis hetero males will be the untouchables 😂……or rather, 😢

Fantastic conversation and the video cuts are an awesome job

That was such a great and thought provoking video. I was thinking about similar concepts, I hope to see more.

Zuck is a terrifying cyborg

Glad you’re back Mike. Your documentaries are at the top of my essential viewing recommendations. This is nightmare fuel..Fascinating, terrifying, sad but completely unsurprising and expected. The future is bleak but #ChristIsLord. Thank you for your work.

Welcome back!

Well, that sounds like fun!

Just found this, such interesting ideas. Looking forward to more.

A great starting point for important conversation.

Dear Mike, your voice has been missed these past few years. Such a wonderful surprise to see this pop up in my recommendations today!

Excellent discussion!

I missed this channel

really cool! ty

Brilliant breakdown

Such a beautiful production, Mike

great conversation, important topics, difficult problems with no technically correct answers

'Who are the high priests of the cyborg theocracy?" asked the rural village vicar of the cyborg theocracy.

With this series, Mike, I feel like an injection of Marshall McLuhan's work might help to contextualize and taxonomize the relationship between the human mammal and its technology. So frequently we objectify technology and endow it with self-contained divine status (even when we are critical of it), when in fact it only amounts to extensions of our own minds and bodies. McLuhan is masterful at properly organizing all of its aspects in a way that seeks to restore human consciousness and awareness. While in his own day his words were enigmatic and opaque to most audiences, as we fall deeper into the digital age, in which platforms possess the ability to introduce entirely new atmospheres, and as the psychedelic experience becomes a more commonly understood phenomena, his once-confusing language becomes increasingly understandable. Concerning your thought that "as you're moving towards technology, being the ground of everything, you're moving aware from human nature," from McLuhan's perspective that is patently mistaken. Language itself is technology, as are every tool that begins with the opposable thumb, and we are a speaking, making species at our core. Human Nature is a fundamentally technological affair, and to suggest otherwise gives way to some sort of noble savage conception of man, (pleas pardon my anachronism) or to suggest some kind of Luddism as corrective. I propose it would be more appropriate, following Heidegger, to discuss the Cult of Technology, or the Mass Market of Industrial Technology. The last thing we should entertain is the rejection of all human art and artifice, as if our creative nature, itself, were the cause of impending dystopia and technocratic hive-ification. The conversation requires vastly more nuance and, as I began, a more helpful and forgiving taxonomy than what we've got here. Kudos to the two of you for engaging the subject as you do. It is perfectly appropriate to be framing the matter as a Cyborg Theocracy.

Mike this is amazing and wonderful. Keep it up!

True Christian theology is actually not a belief system at all, nor is it dependent on belief. It is, more accurately, an acceptance that becomes a lived experience which proves itself accurate over and over to the one experiencing it. Interestingly, is detectable by those around such a person even if the observer is not living the experience directly his or her self. The mental process of mere belief is inadequate for such profound experiences. There is a huge difference between believing and acceptance, which becomes knowing. With knowing there is actual, concrete proof. This is the essence of spiritual science, which, like any science, requires rigor, honesty, and deep commitment, with virtue at its center. What it yields is priceless.

12:07 "Why shouldn't we graft fish skin on ourselves" - actually this one is becoming a reality right now (for burn patients), so it might well cross over into the cosmetic surgery world at some stage.

That was fucking brilliant. And horrifying.

I'm really loving bernardo kastrups' stuff on metaphysics at the moment.

Brilliant video and some really interesting ideas that will need some time to ponder. Great work.

Ah, the enframing.... Nice move. I shall buy the book.

...And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

I'd like to see Mary in discussion with Donna Harraway. Not everyone has such a view of post/transhumanism. Most are against using the term 'natural' in terms of using it in opposition of alterity, such as gay people and other groups that get described as 'un-natural', used in place of 'ungodly' these days.

Wanted more of this

Is it more disturbing to see the woman "reeeing" or the crowd reacting by passively observing whilst they are all videoing it on a smartphone? What are the woman and the crowds reasons for their actions?

I wish you would do introductions! I always like your work but I'm completely lost as to what it's about a lot.

Thanks for making this But some of the audio effects are too loud and it hurts my ear T.T

Strikes me that there’s never been a greater opportunity to revitalise Aristotelianism. What is the nature of things?

She articulates what I've pondered on and off for a couple years, but didn't really put into words: that all this social constructionist ideology is really just a nascent form of tech-driven transhumanism.

I can't seem to find part one. Can you post a link?

I'm so here for the batshit crazy world of SciFi Science Fiction academics being exposed for the heavily anti human movement it often is.

12:41 yuval is a monster I, too, know how to hack people like him when the time comes

Awesome video. Good points. But i have to neadpic(sorry for poor grammar) Use of horrific split second images. Just why? Sorry but this feels forsed. It's not sudell. It's manipulative. You don't need this. Theme of this is more horrific. But if it's a point to artistically show dehumanise is this topic using ai art it's good but not in the way of 25-frame.

What’s up w the flash of gore in the intro? Other than that, interesting video

4:08 “experience the world with ever greater richness”… Zuckerborg’s completely disassociated from reality. You can see it in his eyes. He goes on to talk about an embodied experience on meta. Couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s so ass backwards.

What is that video about around the 15:00 mark?

part 2 when?

Saying you 'do' something based on materiality or technological mindset is an error. You can look at things the way you wish, even if you are in a corporation, or impacted by technology, I'd describe that more as materialism or idolatry. Not a new problem, very unsexy, but also, these problems have been around, the 'new' technology doesn't change us, just what we can do and/or how we do it.

Thank you for the interview and "undressing" of this pernicious worldview. It's basically materialism, through and through - the belief that the world is a machine, mechanical and we can take it apart bit by bit and reassemble it, even man, as a soulless, unembodied thing. The theocracy overlay really adds a wrinkle - that there is a concerted, explicit moral overclass guiding this, preaching this, enforcing this church of materialism.

Good grief.

Everybody is a believer. You either subscribe explicitly or implicitly to theocracy or you’re a proponent of secular pagan forms bereft of human limits or original sin. It still intimates at truth/authority. It’s something the new atheists took for granted. Now look.

The hospitals were getting overwhelmed during covid though and it could've been worse

Weren't you doing an evergreen documentary?

I think cyber theocracy good idea for society it makes transhumanism and religious Authority all-in-one

What is intended with the Satanic-looking imagery, around 1:30?

There’s this idea that transhumanists are woke. But those are different things. Although there may be intersections, as there are between woke people and Christians, for example. The fact is that transhumanists tend to be extremely objective and to guided themselves by empirical evidence. And woke people tend to value subjectivity and narratives.

TechnoPhilia. I read the now seminal (and ultimately dystopian) duo of trans humanism treatises , Frank J. Tipler's 'The Physics Of Immortality' and Ray Kurzweil's 'The Age Of Spiritual Machines' in the mid to late 1990s, while in college. At first read seemed like sci fi utopia, but w/ a few years later, on second read both ring ultimately like Dystopian Ego trips...a hodge hodge of wishful thinking, techno phillia, misguided humano centrism and quite frankly some philosophically and conceptually misconceptions impossibilites. And mind you, Kurzweil's book has a timeline at eh end , purporting to 'predict' when certain landmark innovations will, occur, and needless to say, it's already completely behind schedule.

0:49

I get the premise but for 22 minutes not much was discussed. Or rather a lot was said but nothing discussed in depth.

Read "The Ophiuchi Hotline" by John Varley. It gives good insight in the leftist faith and mindset of infinite mutability of humans.

Pity Mary couldn’t be around for the pagan indigenous idolatry festival which is about to commence.

And she looks so normal 😉

Somebody tell this woman she isn't 18 years old, and she can stop tossing back her bleach-blonde hair like she's in a shampoo commercial. You can certainly tell she's been corrupted by the social media age.