This is a “transhumanist” T-shirt, transhumanists
being people who believe that humanity will be able to transcend its human
species-nature through cybernetics. The end result might be humans with both
animal and robot characteristics. Others apparently hope that humanity will be
abolished (or abolish itself?) in favor of Artificial Intelligence. Personally,
I consider transhumanism to be somewhat passé. It feels like something from the
late 1990's! Cyberpunk and Raëlianism, anyone? It also feels like a
techno-version of the cosmic evolutionism of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and
Aurobindo, or that of the Russian Cosmists, showing that there is nothing new
under the sun…
This T-shirt is actually pretty intriguing. The cyborg has an obvious similarity with the Flatwoods Monster! The motif also reminds me of the Church Universal and Triumphant and the I AM Activity, both of which use a strikingly similar chart to describe the relation between the human soul and the angelic over-soul. I wonder whether this is a coincidence?
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