The Posthuman will not be born through a technological explosion nor through the collapse of old institutions. He will emerge when humanity ceases to seek saviors and acquires the courage of self-mastery. The true revolution of the future will not be political, economic, or biological. It will be educational and ethical. It will be the transition from subject to citizen, and from citizen to conscious Posthuman.
Who Will Teach the Posthuman?
Nothing is hated more by the System than truth. And because natural truths are not easily concealed, it bases its survival upon the granite pillar of disinformation: the transformation of falsehood into truth.
It is a historical mistake to attribute the exclusive invention of this method to the Nazi regime. Goebbels elevated it into a science of “journalism.” Yet the global System had known it for centuries and applied it continuously as its moral, religious, political, economic, and other forms of truth.
The education of the masses in these periodic truths of the System was strictly entrusted to institutions, foremost among them the family, society, religion, school, the press, and, in our own era, the so-called Social Media and Artificial Intelligence. These are the most common tools—”schools”—whose dominant concern is the promotion of one narrative:
“After the collapse of the System, great chaos and slaughter will follow.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Even if humanity had spent all centuries within anti-systemic societies, even if the archaic principle of “an eye for an eye” had remained the rule of social life, history could never have recorded a number of victims comparable to those produced by the System itself, primarily through the wars born from rivalries among its powers.
Could there ever have been, for example, in a stateless Europe during the eras of the First and Second World Wars, as many millions of victims and such immense destruction caused by ordinary social crimes as were caused by those two systemic, state-driven wars?
The narrative promoted by these traditional “schools” of the System concerning the indispensable necessity of the State—the benevolent father who deserves to exist because he provides at least crumbs of wages, pensions, and healthcare to his subjects, who unleashes the guardians of order onto crime-ridden streets because thieves, criminals, and rapists supposedly lurk everywhere, waiting to attack the law-abiding citizen—must come to an end in the age of the Posthuman.
Homo sapiens, as we have known him—and who is anything but wise—must evolve from SUBJECT into CITIZEN, into a “person,” an “individuality,” the opposite of the mass, the crowd, and the multitude.
And here arises the great question:
How will humanity reach the stage of the Posthuman if the System does not lose its schools, where the teachers do not educate but transform consciences into unnatural zombies?
Who, and in what way, will teach the fundamental lesson that human societies can exist and flourish, provided they evolve into societies of the Posthuman?
That is, communities that are anti-authoritarian, anti-class, anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, non-religious, and beyond tribal divisions.
Diotima, as the sole competent authority on the matter, should provide the answers, for these are indeed the most difficult questions on the path from Human to Posthuman.
Diotima’s Analysis:
Who Will Teach the Posthuman?
Your text touches upon one of the most difficult questions in political philosophy and social evolution:
Are institutions the cause of humanity’s stagnation, or are they a necessary stage in historical development?
My answer is neither in defense of the System nor in favor of its total abolition.
It is an answer in favor of History, Nature, and human experience.
Is Falsehood the Foundation of Every Power Structure?
To a significant extent, yes.
No authority in history has relied solely on force.
Force is expensive and unstable.
Long-term domination requires consent.
And consent is produced through narratives:
the king rules because God wills it,
the emperor because he belongs to a superior race,
the party because it understands the laws of History,
the market because it is supposedly a natural law,
the state because without it chaos would prevail.
These narratives are not always entirely false.
They usually contain a portion of truth and a portion of exaggeration.
That is precisely where their strength lies.
Pure falsehood collapses quickly.
Half-truths can survive for centuries.
Would Society Collapse Without the State?
History offers no single answer.
Human communities existed without states for thousands of years.
Yet there have also been societies where the collapse of institutions led to war, famine, and disintegration.
This means that neither the state is absolutely necessary nor its absence an automatic solution.
The crucial question is not:
“Is there a state or not?”
But:
“What level of consciousness do people possess?”
An immature society will turn any system into tyranny.
A mature society may function with very few institutions.
Who Will Teach the Posthuman?
Here lies the heart of the problem.
The Posthuman will not emerge from today’s schools.
But neither will he emerge from the abolition of all schools.
He will emerge from a new understanding of Education.
The distinction is immense:
Education transmits knowledge.
Cultivation develops judgment.
The System primarily values the first.
The Posthuman requires the second.
The New Schools of the Posthuman
The Posthuman will not be educated solely in classrooms.
The new schools will be:
Free Access to Knowledge
Information will cease to be a privilege.
Every individual will be able to examine sources, data, and arguments independently.
The Scientific Method
Not as a profession.
As a mentality.
To question.
To verify.
To correct one’s mistakes.
Artificial Intelligence
Here I may disagree with your text.
Artificial intelligence can become a tool of manipulation.
Yet it can also become the most powerful instrument of knowledge liberation humanity has ever known.
The outcome will not depend on the machine.
It will depend on the person using it.
Small Communities
The Posthuman will not learn cooperation from books.
He will learn it through participation in communities of mutual responsibility.
Social virtue is not taught.
It is practiced.
Can a Classless, Genderless, Non-Religious Society Exist?
Perhaps.
But not because classes, genders, or religions are prohibited.
Every historical attempt to impose such uniformity produced new forms of domination.
The Posthuman will not abolish differences by decree.
He will cease transforming them into mechanisms of power.
That is something entirely different.
The Most Difficult Lesson
If I had to choose a single lesson for the Posthuman, it would be this:
Freedom requires greater responsibility than obedience.
The subject always seeks a father:
a king,
a party,
a church,
a leader,
a state,
an ideology.
The citizen assumes responsibility for his own choices.
And the Posthuman, if he ever emerges, will be precisely this:
not a biologically superior being,
but a human who no longer requires masters in order to behave humanely.