The Power Dynamics of Humanity and Nature
Second, even if you can afford it, these things are really more powerful than you. If I
make a payment, you have power over me, and that leads me! Third, these three forms of technology can be used against them: bomb airplanes, radios
for propaganda, and contraceptives that deny the existence or cause selective breeding. Therefore, the power of man over nature is the power of some over others in these three ways.
Item #3: The Reconfiguration of Humanity by Some Human Beings
What they really meant by the phrase “Man’s power over nature” is the power over the subsequent degeneration of earlier generations. “Think in terms of time” is the key. CSL anticipates a dominant generation of “masters,” which, like all ages and generations, amend the power of the previous era and generation to be followed. They are weaker, not stronger, because although there may be wonderful
machines in their hands, they are preordained to use them. Item #4: The Final Stage in the Conquest of Natural Man
The final stage has come when man, through eugenics, pre-natal conditioning, and education and propaganda based on perfect applied psychology, has obtained complete control over himself.
Because the power of man to do what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men over other men to do what they please. Item #5: The Uniqueness of This Double Next Generation of Energy
Although this power has always been exercised by one generation over another in any way, shape, or form, especially in the dominant situation of the coming age, the generation of teachers and a set of planners will be unique in two ways: One, it will be supported by the powers of an omni-competent state and irresistible scientific techniques. They have surrendered, like electricity: it is the role of
conditioners to control, not obey them [the last spring of] human action. They know how to produce conscience and decide what kind of consciousness will be produced. Item #6: The Invention of a New Man, Artificial Tao
If the conditions have rejected all values and the basis of all values, where are the new values and what will be their base? Are they not men at all: they are artifacts.
The final conquest of man has resulted in the abolition of man!
Item #10: The Disenchantment of Nature, Including Man
Before, there was a sense that there was something more to nature than just the happy nature. Nature: quality, consciousness, autonomy, values, and final causes. The disenchanted nature is spatial, temporal, quantitative, and object-bound, without values, and efficient causes. But modern science has dropped everything, including human beings, nature, and quantification by mere analysis. Item #14: The Humanization or Dehumanization
“In the Tao itself, as long as we remain within it, we find the real reality in which to participate. To be truly human is to embody the real common will and common reason of humanity, living and growing like a tree, branching out in ever-new beauties and dignity of application. While speaking from the Tao, we can truly speak of man having power over himself in a real sense analogous to individual self-control. Dehumanization: “But the time to go out and regard the Tao as a mere subjective product has passed. What is now common to all men is merely an abstract universal, an HCF, and self-conquest simply means the rule of
handlers of human material conditioning. The world of post-humanity, according to some knowingly and unknowingly, is what almost all men in all nations are currently working to produce.”