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Working Title: Absolutely No Posthumanism: From YKTTW
This troper submits that the reason why mass-produced superhumans are generally depicted as evil is because it hits too close to the goals of Nazi German and Japanese scientists. It's perfectly fine to have mass-produced machines, because machines aren't supposed to have or desire individuality. All known, normal human cultures, however, desire individuality to a significant degree; even military organizations allow soldiers to progress along different specializations.
Gattsuru: That seems more of an argument against space marines. As Ghost In The Shell demonstrates, you can easily have an entirely transhuman cast and still keep everyone highly individualized — often more individualized than you would otherwise. Togusa would just be a normal Joe with a weird taste in guns, normally, but in a transhuman world it makes him a rather interesting three-dimensional character with touches of neophobia.
I expect it's more because of the Squick — a strongly transhuman world brings up some ugly questions — and because it's harder to write a world where the average Joe can access more information than the modern savant can, leap thirty feet from a standing start, and lift two hundred pounds one-handed (the fairly 'weak' transhuman world of Star Trek).
Eric DVH: Removed the following, since this sort of wankery makes about as much sense as scribbling real life examples for, say, Become A Real Boy: Real Life
Filby: Is it just me or are half the examples aversions? Maybe we should shift the focus of the article to transhumanism in general. |
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