Transhumanism advances an ideology promising a positive human advance through the application of new and as yet unrealized technologies. Underlying the whole is a libertarian ethos married to a very Christian eschatology promising a miraculous transformation that will answer human needs and redress human failings. In this paper, the supposedly scientific basis on which transhumanist promises are built is critiqued as futurist imaginings with little likelihood of actualization. Transhumanists themselves are likened to the affable con man Professor Harold Hill who, in The Music Man, describes as dire social problems whose solution is a youth band he seeks to sell but has no intention of building. Even were some of the transhumanist imaginings to be realized, I argue, the result would be a dystopia in which the few received benefits denied to the many. In advancing imaginary technologies as a solution to human needs, transhumanists and their bioethical fellow travelers handily avoid discussion of or advocacy for the kind of pedestrian social actions that demonstrably could achieve many of their purported goals. So their enthusiasms, I conclude, are not merely fanciful but damaging to the humanist goals they pretend to advance.

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超人类主义，道德完美和那76个长号。

超人类主义提出了一种希望通过应用新技术和尚未实现的技术来积极推动人类进步的意识形态。整体背后是自由主义者的精神，嫁给了一个非常基督教的末世论，承诺将发生奇迹般的转变，它将满足人类的需求并纠正人类的失败。在本文中，超人主义的诺言建立在所谓的科学基础上，被批评为未来主义的幻想，几乎没有实现的可能性。超人类主义者本人被比作和con可亲的骗子哈罗德·希尔教授，他在《音乐人》中形容为可怕的社会问题，其解决方案是他寻求出售的青年乐队，但无意建立。我认为，甚至有些超人类主义的想象也要实现，结果将是反乌托邦，其中少数人获得的好处被许多人所拒绝。在推进想象技术来解决人类需求时，超人类主义者及其具有生物伦理的旅行者轻而易举地避免了讨论或主张那种显然可以实现其许多目标的行人社会行为。因此，我总结说，他们的热情不仅幻想，而且损害了他们假装要推进的人文主义目标。