Genetic engineering will be our undoing.

(I forgot that above, I already list an entry where I already wrote about genetic engineering.)

Instead of simply implementing good old eugenics, man wants to play God by directly manipulating our DNA. Obviously, CRISPR will not be cheaper than an iPhone, as some source claims, nor will it be available to the average person. Further, even if it were available to the average person, he would not know how to best use it anyway.

Since I am a Christian and believe in the Bible (are forced to, as I wrote several times on these pages), I also believe in Revelation and that in the end, life will be unbearable even to the elect (believers).

Genetic engineering is certainly one ingredient of this nightmarish society that is currently unfolding before our eyes. Because even though I do suffer from my illnesses, I certainly think even less of man. He will create a mess, parents will create Frankensteins.

Certainly, most people do not even want highly intelligent children; and even if they want, their wish is to own a toy they can display to others (which obviously will be less impressive if we all have 210 IQs and are 7 feet tall Newtons or Goethes.)

Also, empathy is certainly not high on the list; even in articles about CRISPR, it is rarely mentioned. Most are focused on treating illnesses or enhancing intelligence. Sensitive and empathic people may suffer even more in this world.

Beauty and suffering are intertwined anyway, even on a personal level, given how many artists of brilliance and genius suffered immensely. Our current secular, materialistic and utilitarian mindset is incapable of accepting it. Apart from the fact that the environment the genius lives in plays a part, too.

Even those in the field like Douglas Hofstadter and Bill Joy are critical of transhumanism. Hofstadter once said he is glad to be alive during a time where technology is still rather primitive (as compared to what the crazy persons/transhumanists want to have available.)

It is a stomach-turning time to live in, and I am glad, as always, when I am dead.

Gómez Dávila was anti-technology for a good reason:

The importance it attributes to man is the enigma of Christianity.

If man ever managed to fabricate a man, the enigma of man will not have been deciphered, but obscured.

Denying that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

Man’s three enemies are: the devil, the state, and technology.

Modern man fears technology’s destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.