It might seem odd to bring up transhumanism at a national conservatism conference. What does a fringe group of scientists trying to “become gods” have to do with national security, fiscal sanity, or securing our borders?
But as leading conservative policy activist Rachel Bovard argued at NatCon 5 , the greatest threat to the movement may not be unhinged debt, unchecked immigration, or even foreign enemies. These threats are real — but they’re symptoms of something deeper. The more dangerous threat is philosophical. It’s metaphysical. And it’s already being engineered.
Transhumanism will seduce the libertarian wing of the right with the promise of individual freedom, productivity, and human enhancement. But make no mistake: Transhumanism is not liberation. It’s the edge of a metaphysica