{"id":130513,"date":"2016-03-19T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=130513"},"modified":"2016-03-22T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:50:33","slug":"the-body-hacking-movement-pushes-transhumanism-to-disturbing-new-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=130513","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cBody Hacking\u201d Movement Pushes Transhumanism to Disturbing New Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">By VC &#8212; Vigilant Citizen March 15, 2016<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_130514\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Justin-worst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130514\" class=\"wp-image-130514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Justin-worst.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Worst, Marlo Webber and Jes Waldrip show off an LED light implant. Grindhouse Wetware calls it the Northstar.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Justin-worst.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Justin-worst-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Worst, Marlo Webber and Jes Waldrip show off an LED light implant. Grindhouse Wetware calls it the Northstar.<\/p><\/div>\n<h5><strong>The \u201cbody hacking\u201d movement is about implanting\u00a0into the human body technology such as RFID chips, cameras and even LED lights. By bypassing health and ethical issues associated\u00a0transhumanism, this body hacking\u00a0pushes this movement\u00a0to strange new frontiers.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>As stated in my <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/?s=transhumanism\">previous articles<\/a> <\/span>about the\u00a0subject, transhumanism has been\u00a0heavily promoted in mass media in the past years, whether it be through movies, music videos, video games and\u00a0documentaries. Often, the word \u201ctranshumanism\u201d isn\u2019t even used. Instead, we simply show how a robotic enhancement \u201cupgrades\u201d the human body and makes it cooler, effectively selling the idea to people who believe they are being entertained \u2013 especially young people.<\/h5>\n<h5>A by-product of this trend is \u201cbody hacking\u201d, a movement that forgoes the ethical and philosophical questions associated with transhumanism to go right into drilling robotic parts onto one\u2019s\u00a0body. While many of us dread the day when microchips implants will be a requirement in a dystopian society, some people actually pay to have it done to them.<\/h5>\n<h5>Here\u2019s an interesting article about the movement from <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/03\/10\/468556420\/body-hacking-movement-rises-ahead-of-moral-answers?utm_source=npr_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20160313&amp;utm_campaign=bestofnpr&amp;utm_term=nprnews\">NPR<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/body-hacking-movement-pushes-transhumanism-new-limits\/\">Continues&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of us dread the day when microchips implants will be mandatory, some people actually pay to have it done to them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130560,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130513\/revisions\/130560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}