Lewis’s concluding lecture, “The Abolition of Man,” describes what happens when his first two lectures meet means, motive, and opportunity. “Conditioners” will arise to craft values and shape emotions outside the Tao, and they “will be armed with the power of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique: we shall at last get a race of conditioners who really can cut out all posterity in what shape they please.” It’d be safe to say the conditioners have already arrived through a movement called transhumanism. As author Yuval Noah Harari believes, “We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens because in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds.” This process has already begun as Lewis forewarned. In September 2022, President Biden signed an executive order to advance biotechnology. The order states that to “achieve our societal goals, the United States . . . [must] be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.” Who gets to make decisions regarding engineering bodies, brains, and minds, and writing circuitry for our cells? These are the conditioners… (READ MORE)

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