G. Stolyarov II's video: U S Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Natasha Vita-More

On Sunday, January 3, 2021, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Dr. Natasha Vita-More for a Virtual Enlightenment Salon on the subject of “Why We Change: Social-Economic-Political Insights". Various areas addressed during this conversation included the following: 1. The Transhuman Manifesto (1983) and the Transhumanist Manifesto (revised during various years, with the latest revision in 2020) what inspired Natasha Vita-More to write these documents 2. How the cultural reception of transhumanism has changed between then and now 3. Natasha Vita-More’s campaign for Los Angeles City Council in the early 1990s 4. Some of the current and planned future initiatives of Humanity+ 5. Natasha Vita-More’s experiences as a professor and insights about how the current young generation perceives transhumanism and emerging technologies 6. Thoughts on when humankind will fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether the effects of the pandemic will be to permanently set back humanity or, rather, to accelerate progress The YouTube chat for this Virtual Enlightenment Salon has been saved and is available in two portions: - Part 1: http://transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USTP_VES_Natasha_Vita-More_Chat_Combined_A.png - Part 2: http://transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USTP_VES_Natasha_Vita-More_Chat_Combined_B.png Read the 1983 and 2020 versions of the Transhumanist Manifesto: https://transhumanist.vip/the-transhumanist-manifesto/ Read the Transhumanist Arts Statement by Natasha Vita-More: https://www.digitalmanifesto.net/manifestos/35/ See the website of Dr. Natasha Vita-More here: https://natashavita-more.com/ Natasha Vita-More is the Executive Director of Humanity+: https://humanityplus.org/ Register for the upcoming free H+ Academy event on January 17, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/h-academy-online-tickets-133266925963 Additional links shared during the YouTube chat: - "Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days" - Nicholas Weiler, University of California, San Francisco - "Electronic Frontier Foundation" - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation - "John Perry Barlow" - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow - "Peter Diamandis" - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Diamandis Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership Become a Foreign Ambassador for the U.S. Transhumanist Party: https://goo.gl/forms/430kp31F0D6VmXFc2 +