The Federalist90%
Our Transhumanist, Sci-Fi Future Has Arrived. But You’re Not Going To Like It 89%
By John Daniel Davidson96%
7/23/2026, 11:31:24 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 39 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Slippery Slope, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 36.3% saturation with 354 hits. Analysis detected 2,819 faulty-reasoning hits from 974 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.8% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,408 of 20,516 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.30% of the article peer group.
It doesn’t take a prophet or a philosopher to see that technological progress isn’t leading us into some futuristic utopia.
Quite the opposite: it’s amplifying and instrumentalizing the worst aspects of human nature — for domination, for power, for the indulgence of our appetites, above all for mastery over the created order, including over death itself.
The desire for immortality is of course what’s behind the transhumanist movement.
For as much as our cultural discourse these days focuses on transgenderism, that’s a relatively minor aspect of the larger ideology of transhumanism, to which many of our tech elites in Silicon Valley, the people who are building out artificial intelligence, openly subscribe.
That being the case, one of the things we need to wrap our heads around as we march further into the era of AI and mass digital technology, is that everything that can be done with technology will be done.
That doesn’t just mean we might find a cure for cancer, or invent a source of renewable clean energy.
It also means the transhumanist dream of immortality will turn into a demonic, inhuman nightmare.
Forget about transgender medical mutilation, as evil as that is.
I’m talking about things like the development of artificial wombs, human-animal chimeras, and clones grown in a lab for the purpose of harvesting organs and blood.
These aren’t things that might happen in some sci-fi future, they’re beginning to happen now.
Bryan Johnson, the Silicon Valley tycoon who believes he can reverse the aging process through technology — and is experimenting on himself, in a very public way, to prove it — announced this week that he has cloned himself for the purpose of growing replacement organs and harvesting blood.
“I just cloned myself… as a newborn,” Johnson wrote on X.
“This baby-bryan lives in a petri dish for now.
This may be scary to some people … a dystopian future.
But, for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health.”
While Johnson might not have a full-grown body double he’s keeping in a lab somewhere, what he’s done looks forward to a future where that might be possible — indeed, is likely inevitable (note that he says his clone is in a petri dish “for now”).
Johnson had his blood drawn, cells extracted, and then reprogrammed as stem cells.
With these cells, he can in theory grow spare body parts, organs for transplantation, inject “young cells,” and, as Johnson puts it, “become my own blood boy.”
He intends to do all of that, and possibly more.
Johnson, who often appears in public wearing a “don’t die” T-shirt, believes these technologies can reduce what he calls his “biological age.”
This will be accomplished, he believes, in part by turning over all his choices to specially-created AIs that dictate what he eats, when he sleeps, what he does.
Almost every aspect of his life is determined by what this technology tells him to do.
It is, for him, a kind of god that he serves.
Johnson first became widely known a few years ago when TIME Magazine featured him in a puff profile.
I wrote about him in my book, Pagan America, as an example of how the transhumanist movement is a form of neopaganism that will treat AI like a new form of deity, veritably worshipping it in exchange for powers and abilities that would otherwise be out of reach — like prolonged life.
The desire for prolonged life is of course a perennial aspect of the human condition.
In ages past, a witch or a pagan priest would consume the blood of a sacrificial victim for this purpose.
Not much has changed.
In Johnson’s case, early on in his experiment, he injected himself with the blood plasma of his 18-year-old son in hopes it would reverse his own aging process.
He abandoned the practice only because it didn’t produce results.
What we have here is a form of paganism, enhanced and to some extent hidden by the wonders of modern technology.
But the basic worldview is unmistakably pagan: in exchange for fealty and sacrifice, a person will be given power.
That’s the bargain Johnson is making, whether he fully realizes it or not.
All pagan systems, for example, rely on some form of human sacrifice.
In the emerging neopagan future, amid the decline of Christian civilization, human sacrifice will return in new forms.
Indeed, new technologies will bring new forms of human sacrifice, like the creation of clones by the ultrawealthy for the purpose of harvesting organs and blood.
Critics will dismiss this argument as irrational fearmongering, the objections of Luddites and fundamentalists.
The benefits that come with the progress of science and technology, they’ll say, cannot be denied.
But there is no point in counting the benefits without counting the cost.
The cost, in this case, is our humanity.
We see this is the practice of abortion, IVF, even surrogacy.
In each of these cases, the dignity of the unborn child is violated.
It is the same with euthanasia, which in countries like Canada is quickly becoming mainstream, offered to the elderly and infirm by a medical establishment that would rather administer death than cure disease.
These things are always euphemistically presented as a form of “health care,” which is exactly what Johnson does, calling it “the future of health.”
It’s important, then, to call these things by their true names.
In the case of technology that allows us to create clones for the purpose of harvesting organs and blood and cells, it’s nothing more than slavery and human sacrifice.
As such, it’s also a great crime, a wicked and demonic practice that should, in a civilized society, be strictly outlawed.
All the tech jargon in the world won’t change that.
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