1920s Gnosticism and collective communist human nature
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retold in 3 talks
Early Soviet thinkers (even Trotsky) entertained the idea that communism would change human nature and introduce a new collective entity; today this returns in the New Age 'singularity' myth of minds merged into a collective digital consciousness.
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As told 3
“communism should change the human nature and introduce a new collective entity of humanity... today this is returning with... singularity”
“this radical sect developed this radical but very influential their idea was in the twenties that now that we communists have power... the last resistance of bourgeois morality is sexuality and we have to overcome it”
“The idea was that the main task of the October Revolution should be... to produce a new man... a man who is clearly described as beyond sexuality.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
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Grace Gelder1Orhan Pamuk1Bong Joon-ho1Jaron Lanier1Martin Amis1Jane Austen1Jon Ronson1Yevgeny Zamyatin1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
Early Soviet thinkers (even Trotsky) entertained the idea that communism would change human nature and introduce a new collective entity; today this returns in the New Age 'singularity' myth of minds merged into a collective digital consciousness., illustrating wired brain / Neuralink,technology,communism
A radical Soviet sect in the 1920s anticipated singularity-style collective consciousness and concluded that communism must abolish sexuality as the last bastion of bourgeois morality, showing the historical precedent for singularity theology., illustrating Bolshevik Gnosticism,singularity,eroticization of failure
Early Soviet ideologues (especially Andrei Platonov) imagined the October Revolution's goal as producing a new human being beyond sexuality, relating to the body like a measuring apparatus reading a steam engine. In Platonov's Stalinist-period works sex returns as authentic existence., illustrating alienation,communism and sexuality,Zamyatin's 'We'