Humanism

Behold, I am man and I can know anything. With the tools I have created, I can grasp at atoms and place my foot upon the moon. Both the great and the small bow before my visage as I erect a tower that shall put Babel to shame. Fear my internet.

With it, I can learn anything. Archives are at my finger tips and knowledge disseminates in miniature electronic universes that I create. People around the world can and will know what I think and I can ignore what they think because what I believe is right is just so. My memories are digitized. Long gone are the days of forgetfulness where people could fade into obscurity. Facts are at my disposal and history exists solely for my comprehension.

The internet can bring me women; the internet can bring me men; the internet can bring things (not that that excludes men or women). Mighty is the roar of my laptop as it powers up and great is its illumination in the darkness of ignorance. Do not be afraid, but look into its depths and you shall find God.

Great is my hyperbole and greater my understanding. I earn a piece of paper and call myself a man; I need one book to hold all of Alexandria’s treasures. Nothing can be forgotten.

And if disease can try to rob me of my memories and my ideas, then let it try. Even if I cannot be saved, my children’s children can be. The diseases of the past are themselves diseased by the human intellect. I see no reason to think otherwise of death now. My brain is but a computer and my body just circuitry.

And it is said that people are still poor, the environment ravaged, and fundamental human concerns ignored. I say that more mastery can solve these problems created by our current mastery. People are only poor because we let too many reproduce. The environment is sullied solely because we haven’t received enough funding from the Luddites. The human condition is perfectible and so I remain entirely unworried. My race is my salvation and my electronic capabilities my hope. Woe to those who have come before. I pity them for they never knew what I do. I know everything they knew and more. Fear not, for the future is coming.