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Ever dream of having a tail, dog ears or wings like a dragon? If theFreedom of Form Foundationhas its way wed all be able to modify our bodies to look likeanthropomorphic animals.

The Foundation, started in 2018, is a non-profit corporation started by scientists within the Furry Fandom to to make it possible for people to outwardly express their inner identity through easy, safe, customized body modifications.

The goal of the Foundation is to advance innovation in cosmetic surgery and biotechnology to modify bodies to become anthropomorphic creatures. This includes everything from dragon ears to dog tails to lizard tongues.

The catch-cry of the organization ismorphological freedom,as they write on theirAbout page:

Rather than asking why?, we would ask why not? advancing the options for methods of self-expression via morphological freedom can only be a good thing.

To make sense of the Freedom of Form Foundation, its necessary to take a step back at wider culture trends, in particular the rise of geek leisure in the late-20th century and the influence of transhumanism.

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Furries, or the Furry Fandom, is a collective name given to individuals who have a distinct interest in anthropomorphic animals such as cartoon characters. Furries have long been an Internet punching bag, commonly depicted as mentally ill fetishists. However, from my perspective, the fetishistic interest in anthropomorphic animals is theleast weirdcomponent of this subculture. Human sexuality is incredibly malleable and influenced by social cues. That a generation raised on cartoons depictingLola BunnyandScar from the Lion King, developed a niche attraction to certain character designs isnt at all surprising.More shocking is that onlyaround one-thirdof those involved in the furry subculture are motivated by sexual attraction. Instead, the vast majority of furries have an aesthetic, psychological andin many casesspiritualconnection to animals and fantasy characters.

In one large survey ofattendeesof a Furry Convention, researchers found that:

Furries are mostly men with high rates of interest in science-fiction and other facets of geek culture.

Furries have a sense of connection to non-human species, with 80.9 percent feeling a shared connection with a non-human species and 43.1 percent believing this connection has been present from birth.

Nearly half of the furries surveyed identified as less than 100% human.

The strong spiritual connection that people feel with what is essentially a leisure activity driven by pop culture is notable. This isnt merely a hobby, but a lifestyle tied to a sense of self. This psychology can only make sense within a wider cultural trend.

Geek Culture As Social Pathology: It would be unfair to single out the furry subculture as particularly pathological. Instead, we can sit furry fandom as a minor footnote in what's a broader culture trend toward what researchers call the "great fantasy migration."Western liberal culture isinherently narcissistic. Both in terms of rates of diagnosed narcissistic personality disorders and precursors of inflated self-esteemboth of which areon the rise. This is less an individual character flaw and more a natural consequence of the collapse of traditional institutions (religion, the family) and the rise of unsteady global markets and economic inequality.

Were all self-marketers now, driven by a need to ensure we make an individual impact on the world, lest we be forgotten. In this aim, were in constant competition with others to stand out. As social theorist Christopher Lasch noted:

All of us, actors and spectators alike, live surrounded by mirrors. In them, we seek reassurance of our capacity to captivate or impress others, anxiously searching out blemishes that might detract from the appearance we intend to project.

The problem is that most of us arent very special. We arent beautiful, successful, or likely to make a mark on the world. This is where fantasy helpfully fills the gap. The great fantasy migration hypothesis argues that the growth in consumer interest in geek culturefrom anime to science fiction/fantasy and video gamesis a result of grandiose personalities avoiding harsh realities. As McCainet alput it:

In the United States, narcissism has been increasing since the 1970s, while traditional ways of supporting narcissism such as prestigious jobs and credit (e.g., the debt bubble collapse) are becoming less viable for the majority of Americans. The result for individuals is discomfort (or cognitive dissonance) with the incongruence between inflated sense of self and deflated reality. One solution for resolving this dissonance is to migrate into a fantasy world via role playing games, fandoms, and fantasy media. These hobbies present opportunities for living out a grandiose self (e.g., by role playing a powerful or charismatic character) that might not be possible in the non-fantasy world. And, of course, in some cases success in fantasy (e.g., tournament gaming, achieving cosplay fame) can lead to real world success.

This invests geeky leisure with a degree of weight not often appreciated. The reason why geeky consumers may appear fanatical or obsessive, is that consumption exists as a comforting facade in the face of difficult economic realities.

The Freedom of Form Foundation, as an extension of furry culture and therefore geek culture, incorporates this earnest defence of fantasy. However, it also draws upon a particular strand of ideology.

Transhumanism As Cope: The transhumanist movementhistorically coincides with the rise of geek culture and the culture of narcissism.Transhumanist ideas came into fashion in the 1980s when there was a fervor of excitement over biotechnologies and the potential for technologically assisted immortality. Proponents such as philosopher Max Moore, co-founder of theExtropy Institute, cling to the idea of a future free of death, disease and bodily limitation, writing:

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Its easy to situate transhumanist fantasies within the culture of narcissism, one thats concerned more about the death of the individual than the wellbeing of the collective. It also reflects a vision of man as conqueror of nature, capable of transcending our imperfect meat prison. As political theorist Hannah Arendt noted in her 1958 bookThe Human Condition, scientists often see their role as:

[A] rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for some- thing he has made himself.

This arrogance is really a means of coping with the reality that each of us, no matter how successful we are in our lifetime, will die and rot.For the transhumanists, its better to project a fantasy world ofanti-aging nanobotsthan humbly prostrate ourselves before the authority of natural limitation. Its at the intersection of furry fantasy and transhumanist ideology that the Freedom of Form Foundation situates itself. As a cultural oddity it reflects both the geeky need to feel special and a rebellion against the limits of human morphology.

Lost is an appreciation of the material conditions and spiritual hollowness that have generated these narcissistic tendencies in the first place.For all their utopian projection, geeky transhumanists cant envision a world where humanity is happy just the way we are.

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Dr Phil Kennedy is regarded by many as the Indiana Jones of neuroscience: a Limerick-born doctor who became a bioengineering trailblazer, making people excited and then nervous by the way he worked outside the system. Then finally, sensationally, he experimented on himself by having an electrode implanted inside his brain in a Belize clinic that specialises in medical tourism.

Kennedy did this to measure the ways in which brainwaves can be harnessed to external computing capacity, helping people with locked-in syndrome or ALS, for example, although what was specifically achieved by implant surgery on himself isnt clear. This brief documentary is a partial introduction to the man and his work and it seeks to rescue Kennedy from his wacky reputation, to downplay the maverick side of his personality (there is no mention of his self-published sci-fi novel called 2051) and it doesnt dwell on the fact that Kennedy is now regarded as somewhat eccentric by mainstream neuroscientists although disruptors, pioneers and original thinkers are very often people just like him.

This film about him provides food for thought, though: authors such as Mark OConnell are interviewed about the prospects for techno-homo sapiens, a transhuman evolutionary phase in which human beings become, effectively, wedded to computers. Cellphones inside our heads, is how someone imagines the future. So there are two implications: for sick people with ALS whose lives can be made better, and perfectly healthy people whose lives can be made what? Even better? Superhuman? Or less than human? Dangerously dependent for outsourced memory and cognitive capacity on computers which could go wrong?

Well, Kennedy says these ideas are here to stay. Hes right.

Father of the Cyborgs is in cinemas from 8 October

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Father of the Cyborgs review the Indiana Jones of neuroscience - The Guardian

On October 18, 2019, i.e. before the alert was issued against Covid-19, a few personalities participated in a role-playing game simulating this epidemic. This event was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The containment, due to the political reaction to Covid-19, favoured a global redistribution of wealth in favour of a few Internet players (Microsoft, Alphabet...). At the same time, investment funds (Vanguard, Blackrock, etc.), which were already managing astronomical sums and could impose their interests on states, became the property of a few families. There are now stratospheric wealth gaps between a few super-billionaires and the people.

The middle classes, which had been slowly eroding since the fall of the USSR and the beginning of economic globalisation, are gradually disappearing. In practice, democratic systems cannot withstand these sudden and gigantic wealth gaps.

As always in periods of change in political systems, the social class that aspires to power imposes its point of view. In this case, transhumanism. The idea that scientific progress will enable a transformation of human biology to the point of overcoming death. Almost all of the worlds fifty largest fortunes seem to subscribe to this fantasy. For them, technology will replace many people in the same way that science has replaced superstition.

In order to impose their new Doxa, these very large fortunes are starting to control what we think and to force us to act according to this new ideology. The most recent phenomenon is precisely our reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. Historically, in all previous epidemics without exception, doctors sought to cure the sick. That was the old world. In the new transhumanist world, no one is to be cured, all are to be protected with a new technology, messenger RNA. Most developed states forbid their doctors to treat their patients and their pharmacists to sell drugs that might help them (hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, etc.). A leading medical journal, The Lancet, even published an article claiming that an old drug used by millions of people was killing Covid patients who took it. The Internet giants censor accounts that promote it. Everything must be done to make messenger RNA the one and only option.

I am not a doctor. I dont know what these products are worth. Im just a man who observes the way in which a debate is closed before it has begun. I am not interfering in the scientific debate, but I am observing the closure of the debate.

The messenger RNA case against doctors is not over, however. President Joe Biden held a virtual global summit on September 22, 2021 to distribute 500 million packets of messenger RNA vaccine. To everyones surprise, the states that were to be the recipients of this gift boycotted the summit. They do not believe that messenger RNA is a solution for them[1].

To understand them, all you need is a calculator: the states that went all in on messenger RNA had 20 to 25 times more deaths per million population than those that allowed care by doctors.

Transhumanism already fascinates us because we dont ask about the ban on Covid care. It does not have the same influence outside the West.

In the past, vaccination consisted of inoculating a small portion of a disease so that the body learns to defend itself against it. Since Covid-19, messenger RNA has been equated with vaccination, yet it is not a vaccine in the classical sense.

History has shown us that in order to impose a new regime, you must first get people to act in accordance with a new ideology. Once the subjects have started to comply, it becomes very difficult for them to back down. The game is up. This is called propaganda. Propaganda is not about controlling discourse, but about using it to change behaviour[2].

As we have all given up on experimenting with Covid care, we have all signed up to messenger RNA and now the health pass. We are ripe to enter this new regime. It is absurd to call it a "dictatorship"; an old world concept. We do not yet know what this new regime will be, yet we are already building it.

States are threatened by the very large fortunes mentioned above, which are generally much more powerful than they are. States have mainly fixed costs and very little room for manoeuvre. On the contrary, the new very large fortunes can withdraw their investments here at any time and take them there. Very few Sovereign Wealth Funds can compete with them and thus still be independent of them.

The corporate media refuse to question the ban on care for Covid-19. They devote all their energy to promoting messenger RNA.

The corporate media have been very active in this project. For a long time, but especially since the end of the Cold War, journalism has defined itself as a search for objectivity, even though it is known to be impossible.

In court, witnesses are not asked to be objective. But they are required to "tell the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth". It is known that each person has only perceived a part of the Truth according to his or her own condition. Thus, in an accident involving a pedestrian and a car, most of the pedestrian witnesses agree with the pedestrian, while most of the motorist witnesses say that the car was in the right. It is only the sum of the evidence that tells us what happened.

The corporate media reacted to the influx of new actors into their profession (blogs and social networks) first by trying to disqualify them: these people are touching, but they are not trained enough to compare themselves to us. Professional journalists have made a distinction between freedom of expression (for all) and freedom of the press (for them alone). One thing leading to another, they have set themselves up as schoolmasters, the only ones capable of giving good and bad marks to those who try to imitate them. To do this, they imagined that they would check their assertions (fact check) as if their work were comparable to a television game show.

Worried that politicians would side with their constituents rather than the very rich, the corporate media have extended fact checking to their political guests. There are countless programmes where a leader is subjected to editorial fact-checking. Political discourse, which should be an analysis of societys problems and how to solve them, is reduced to a series of figures that can be checked against statistical yearbooks.

The corporate media have asserted themselves first as a Fourth Estate and then, after absorbing the others, as the main Estate. This notion comes from the 18th century British politician and philosopher, Edmund Burke. The Fourth Estate was constituted alongside the Spiritual, the Temporal and the Commons (the simple people). Burke, in the name of his liberal conservatism, did not dispute its legitimacy. Today everyone can see that it is not based on a value, but on the money of its owners.

The choice of subjects covered by the corporate media is constantly shrinking. It is slowly moving away from analysis and concentrating on verifiable data only.

Twenty years ago, for example, newspapers that challenged my work would present it summarily and then immediately disqualify it as conspiratorial. Today, they no longer dare to summarise my theses, because they have no way of fact-checking them. So they just classify me as unreliable. Faced with younger, non-professional journalists, the corporate media limit themselves to insults. As a result, there is a growing gap between them.

This phenomenon is particularly evident with the yellow vests, ordinary citizens who were protesting against this sociological evolution of the world even before containment allowed it to triumph. I remember a debate on a 24-hour news channel where a member of parliament asked a yellow vest what allowance would satisfy the protesters, while the yellow vest replied, "We dont need allowances, we want a fairer system." The corporate media quickly removed individuals who, like this lady, were thinking about the problems of society and replaced them with others who were making concrete and immediate demands. They did everything to censor their thinking.

In the past, the Church published a list of books that were forbidden to the faithful. Today, on the contrary, they try to publish a list of reliable sources, even to determine a priori the Truth.

Another solution envisaged by the new ruling elite is to re-establish the Index librorum prohibitorum. In the past, the Church - which was not only a community of believers but also a political power - published a list of books that were censored for all but its clerics. It wanted to protect the People from the errors and lies of the protesters. This only lasted for a while. In the backlash, the believers deprived the Church of its political power.

Former Nato and Bush Administration officials set up a New York-based company, NewsGuard, to compile a list of unreliable websites (including ours)[3]. Or NATO, the European Union, Bill Gates and a few others have created CrossCheck, which finances, among other things, Les Dcodeurs du Monde[4]. It seems that the exponential multiplication of information sources has ruined this project.

A more recent method consists in defining a priori, not who is reliable, but what the Truth is.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has just set up a "Mission against disinformation and conspiracy", its president, the sociologist Grald Bronner, considers that the State should set up a body to establish the Truth on the basis of "scientific consensus". He considers it unacceptable that the word of "a university professor is equivalent to that of a yellow vest"[5].

This method is not new. In the 17th century, Galileo claimed that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not the other way round. Grald Bronners predecessors opposed him with various passages from the Holy Scriptures, which were then considered a revealed source of knowledge. Then the scientific consensus led to his condemnation by the Church.

The history of science is full of examples of this type: almost all the great discoverers were opposed by the scientific consensus of their time. Most of the time their ideas were not able to triumph with demonstrations, but with the death of their opponents: the leaders of the "scientific consensus".

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Over the weekend, Madison Cawthorn, the Trumpy young first-term congressman, tweeted out a video showing himself misinterpreting the Bible and pushing theocracy. In the video, an edited clip from a speech he gave at a religious-right conference last month, Cawthorn seems to claim that David, Daniel, and Esther influenced the governments of their day to uphold Christian principlesat best a shockingly ahistorical assertion; at worst, a troublingly anti-Semitic comment. Yet whats most remarkable about Cawthorns video pushing Christianity onto civic government and warning apocalyptically that if we bend the knee to the Democrats today, our country will be lost forever and our children will never know what freedom is is how utterly unremarkable it is. Cawthorns rant is, sadly, nowhere close to the biggest problem in apocalyptic Christianity in America at the moment.

No, not only has the apocalypticism of the last few years not died out, but things arent getting better.

Donald Trump may be off of Twitter. Q may have gone silent. Yet the unrest, the conspiracy theories, the anti-democratic forces that launched a coup attempt on January 6 and that promote apocalyptic ideas around the reinstatement of Trump? Those continue to grow and evolve. In 2019, I wrote about the theology of the last world emperor, a secular messianic figure used in the Middle Ages as part of apocalyptic circles to push for an active quest for Armageddon, and how and why Trump was being used as a contemporary example of the movement. Now, in 2021, it feels like we are somewhere between the revival of that message and Trump as the actual Messiah. Instead of the apocalypticism calming down eleven months after the 2020 election and nine months after the January 6th insurrection, it has spread, grown, put down roots. Apocalypticism has become mainstream among Trump supporters, and it has brought ever weirder and darker elements from the fringes into the core.

In Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for example, someone paid for a billboard at 1827 Lafayette Street with an image of Trump next to a Biblical verse, Unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6, but misattributed on the billboard to Romans). The full passage, in the King James Version, is For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. The billboard blasphemously implies that Trump is the Messiah; if that is not the intention, it is at minimum a creepy and confusing exercise in Trumpian adulation.

The conflation of the Christian message in white evangelical churches with support for Trump is an ongoing crisis. The white evangelical demographic is growing, with a nearly 4 percent increase nationwide from 2016 to 2020fueled almost entirely by white supporters of Trump. According to one March 2021 poll from PRRI, some 61 percent of white evangelicals believe the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Numerous evangelical supporters, with MyPillow guy Mike Lindell being perhaps the most egregious example, have gone all in in this idea. Belief in the big lie overlaps with a number of other conspiracies: In a January 2021 poll, a majority of evangelical respondents said they believed in widespread voter fraud in 2020, a Deep State war on the Trump administration, and Antifa being responsible for January 6th. QAnon, the apocalyptic partisan murder conspiracy web, is believed in by nearly a quarter of white evangelical Protestants, around a quarter of Latter-day Saints, and about a quarter of Hispanic Protestants. Among both white evangelicals and LDS, nearly a quarter say they are willing to resort to violence in order to save our country.

This by itself is enough cause for alarmQAnon and DezNat, the LDS iteration (or even more alarmingly, the Doctrine of Christ, a Mormon offshoot that incorporates QAnon directly), seemed to be genuinely dangerous ideologies long before January 6. But given the Trump big lie and the events of January 6th, the willingness to resort to violence takes broader meaning.

Q himself has not posted since December 8, but the QAnon adherents are moving on without hima QAnon conference in Dallas on Memorial Day weekend, the For God & Country Patriot Roundup, was a three-day event featuring Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, Michael Flynn, and others. Trump was invoked throughout the event. Meanwhile, some 45 candidates for Congress in 2022 are QAnon supporters. Dave Hayes, a leading QAnon adherent, claims that Q will return when Trump comes back into office. And, of course, the usual internet conspiracy-mongers are still following imaginary bread crumbs to say that Trump is already back in power.

The interweaving of QAnon and evangelicalsespecially in this context of Trumps repeated insistence that he didnt lose and his supporters belief that violence may be necessary to restore the true governmenttakes on dangerous holy war themes. Some of the speakers in Dallas openly pushed Christian Dominionist ideas. Edmee Chavannes called for those [Christian] disciples [to] have complete dominion over politics, entertainment, the press, business, education, finance, and by God, restoring the integrity of our voting system and get a hold of the global Communist takeover. This rhetoric was echoed by Rep. Lauren Boebert at another religious right conference on September 11:

Are we going to sit and agree with the enemy? Are we going to agree with what the enemy is doing? Are we going to sit back and complain and murmur? Or are we going to speak life into this nation? Are we going to speak victory? Are we going to declare that God removes these unrighteous politicians, these corrupt, crooked politician, and installs righteous men and women of God?

These political figures are not the worst of it, even if they have the biggest mouthpieces. Vices recent piece on the fight against QAnon within Protestant churches, offering examples of Christian nationalism and of congregants stockpiling weapons and joining militias, showcases the danger. Theres the issue of pastors using YouTube to spread QAnon sayings, and pastors such as Greg Locke mixing anti-vaccine rhetoric with calls for violence. The link between QAnon and religion has never been secretbut when it filters out beyond the internet, beyond the churches, spreads among their adherents, including some who are mentally unbalanced, you get horror stories like that of Matthew Coleman, who murdered his children because of his QAnon beliefs.

This is not an apocalyptic movement thats adhering to a central goal or theology. Its one where very personal apocalypticisms, very personal conspiracy theories, lead to the murder of children.

While the PRRI survey found that it was Protestant denominations most likely to have incorporated QAnon beliefs, some branches of radical traditionalist Catholics maintain similar beliefs. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan, who had been apostolic nuncio to the United States and now writes conspiracy-laden tracts for the Remnant, an apocalyptic hate site that routinely attacks Pope Francis, gave a speech in July in which he called the modern world the kingdom of the Antichrist where transhumanism challenges heaven and nature, in the eternal cry of the enemy, Non serviam (I will not serve). Archbishop Vigan further argued that this rebellious world, enslaved to the devilespecially in those who govern it with power and moneyis waging war on us and is preparing for a fierce and ruthless battle, while he intends to gather around himself as many allies as possible, even among those who prefer not to fight, out of fear or interest. The apocalyptic fights over QAnon and Trump have begun to bleed over into other intra-Catholic disputes, like the fight over the Latin Mass. Readers of Vigan will have heard of his QAnon-like conspiracy theory, the Great Reset. And MAGA/Q Catholics certainly made their presence known on January 6th.

In the midst of all this, where is Trump? He has sought out ever more radical ground, spending part of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks giving a virtual speech at the Rally of Hope event held by the Unification Church, the cult commonly known as the Moonies. He is not the only senior member of his administration to appear at their eventsMike Pence, Michael Pompeo, and Mark Esper were featured at a virtual rally by the Unification Church this past May. And the Unification Church had returned the favorHyung Jin Sean Moon, the son of the cults late founder, had campaigned for Trump and organized members to march on the Capitol on January 6th.

Sean Moon runs Rod of Iron Ministries, a gun church that uses AR-15s in its liturgy and ritual and has recently bought a 40-acre compound it dubbed Liberty Rock in central Texas, about 50 miles from Waco. The churchs Twitch stream often uses hashtags like #MAGA, #Trump, and, of course, #QAnonwhile Sean Moon plans to take his own messianic kingship when America falls. This crazily radical group, technically separate from the Moonies although there is considerable overlap, sounds like it should be too far even for Trumpyet in October 2020 Steve Bannon spoke at the groups Freedom Festival (and will again this coming weekend) and in 2016 Eric Trump attended the opening of the groups Tommy Gun Warehouse (owned by Seans brother Justin Moon). Teddy Daniels, a pro-Trump congressional candidate from Pennsylvania, had Sean bless his campaign when he announced his run. Far from being marginalized, Rod of Iron has managed to become part of Trumps world.

There is no way to know if Trump knew or cared about any of this when he agreed to speak at the Moonie rally on September 11but if he did know, that means he intentionally chose to speak at a fringe movement that overlaps with one of the most militant, apocalyptic movements in the country. And as Trump continues his new Save America tourwith a name deliberately chosen to provoke fear and anger and to incite actionand presumably to runs for re-election as president (he will be in Des Moines, Iowa this coming Saturday), that combination of guns and God, by whatever means, will only further radicalize his adherents.

As time passes, and as apocalyptic prophecies of Trumps occupation of the White House fail, the strength of the apocalyptic impulses around Trump does not seem to be diminishing. If anything, the reverse is true: it seems to be growing. The more egregiously that fringe groups are being courted and integrated into the body of true believers, the more that Trumps faithful seem to become weirder, more dangerous, and more convinced that their apocalypse is coming. We can only hope that deradicalization efforts will be supported and be successful, but until then, the messianic fervor around Trump remainsand remains a threat.

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