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Silicon Valley didn’t birth the transhumanist project. This forgotten Moscow librarian did.

theblaze.com · 4h · first reportShare

Most people blame the nation’s treacherous climb to AI domination and the dystopian push for human enhancement on Silicon Valley. But Glenn Beck says the true genesis of the transhumanist project traces back to a man who lived nearly a century before Silicon Valley was even a concept. Nikolai Fyodorov, a Moscow librarian and nearly forgotten 19th-century thinker, penned his vision for humanity in the 1880s, and it had all the makings of the chilling blueprint we are watching rapidly come to fruition today. Fyodorov, Glenn explains, believed and taught anyone who would listen that “every religion and every philosophy had gotten the assignment wrong.” “He thought death was not a fact of nature to be made peace with. He said death was the enemy, and the entire human race needed to be united using science. And they had one job: stop death,” he recounts. This “common task” of stopping death led Fyodorov to suggest that all the “scattered atoms of every human being who had ever died” be gath