Ideologia "Omului Nou" în noua revoluție industrială. Ce ne spune Roger Scruton despre foloasele pesimismului?

The ideology of the New Man that fuels the new industrial revolution, the so-called Fourth Revolution based on information and communication technology, is a new promise for universal freedom and happiness. As other earlier utopian promises, it intends to forcibly shape man and society, in order to acquire the much-waited redemption from the current unsatisfactory and degraded state. This time, by accompanying the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the social engineering is intertwined with the full transformation of the Man, through successfully overpassing Nature and Culture. Mixing man and machine, improving biology and totally controlling society represents the final leap forward of the behaviorist psychology and natural science, putting into practice their slogan that all we are is the result of the external stimuli, that everything is constructed. Confronted with such a radical proposal for reshaping Nature and Culture, one could rely on the benefits of moderate pessimism. This is a necessary safeguard in face of new destructive utopia that swept the world in the last decades.