ORATORS IN THE REALM OF PANDEMONIUM PLAYING GOD

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 490 - 510, 22.10.2019

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Abstract

Once upon a time Sigmund Freud proclaimed that technology was the means by
which to push humans beyond the edge of their biological limits, transforming them
into ‘a kind of prosthetic’ God. By the time humans began to dominate the world,
many animal species had already disappeared because of man’s hunger. This was
the first indicator that humans were prone to determine the fate of other species. The
wars they fought, massacres they ordered, and extinctions they caused. The center of
the world was not large enough, while the center of the universe was occupied by
God. Dante Alighieri imagined the planets through their proximity to the Sun as our
juxtaposition to God. For humankind, the inability to control themselves was
disturbing enough. Zamiatin, in his We, created a dystopian world at the edge of
Armageddon in which people become the subjects of a long-lasting project that
portrays religions as myths. The aim of this study is to display the imaginable cost of
playing God through science, which is presumably designed to make life easier, not
to replace God. 

Keywords

Post-human, Transhumanism, Pantheism, Dystopia, Science, Technology, Destruction, God

PANDEMONIUM’DA TANRIYI OYNAYAN VAİZLER

Abstract

Bir zamanlar Sigmund Freud, teknolojinin, insanları bir tür prostetik tanrı(lar)a
dönüştürmek amacıyla, biyolojik limitlerinin ötesine taşıyan bir yol olduğunu
açıklamıştı (ki hâlâ öyle). İnsanoğlu dünya üzerinde ikamet etmeye başladığında, birçok hayvan türü, insanın açlığından ötürü zaten çoktan yok olmuştu bile. Bu,
insanoğlunun başkalarının kaderlerine karar verme eğiliminin ilk işaretiydi. Savaşlar
yaptı; katliamlar gerçekleştirdi, nesillerin yok olmasına sebep oldu. Evrenin merkezi
tanrı tarafından işgal edilmişken, dünyanın merkezi yeterince büyük değildi
insanoğlu için. Dante Alighieri, gezegenleri güneşe olan yakınlıklarıyla hayal etti;
tıpkı bizim tanrıyla yan yana duruşumuz gibi. Kendi bedenini kontrol edebilme
yetisisne sahip olamamak yeterince rahatsız ediciydi zaten insan için. We
romanında, insanların, dinleri mitler olarak tanımlayan, uzun süreli bir projenin
nesneleri haline geldiği, mahşerin kıyısında distopyan bir dünya yarattı Zamiatin. Bu
çalışmanın amacı, tanrının yerine geçmekten ziyade, muhtemelen hayatı
kolaylaştırmak için tasarlanan bilimi kullanarak tanrıyı oynamanın öngörülebilir
bedelini ortaya çıkarmaktır.

 

Keywords

İnsan üstü, İnsan ötesi, Panteizm, Distopya, Bilim, Teknoloji, Destrüksiyon, Tanrı

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