Transhumanism and Goliath

One week ago a post was published on Medium titled Straw-manning transhumanists for fun and profit

The opening dourly states the following:

Transhumanism is potentially unique in that adherents are more frequently portrayed in fiction as blood-sucking vampires, mad scientists, dangerous dictators or grotesque monstrosities rather than the reality — a bunch of sci-fi nerds typically on the internet or in labs.

Indeed, this is an issue, as pointed out in the article the "public face" of transhumanism (in the United States of America at least) largely consists of right-libertarian billionaires.

I disagree strongly with right-libertarian ideology (along with its cousin ideologies) and I agree with the author of the article in that they're over-representative -a Goliath, if you will- of what is in actuality an ideology with a very broad variety of strains.

But instead of bemoaning on how people think that all transhumanists are right-libertarians, we should be asking ourselves a question: what are we doing about it?

The most generalized answer is that we should expose more strains of the broader transhumanist movement to the public and make them more visible. After all, if what we say might be the future then we'd better ensure people hear it, all of it.

Postscript: for those who think transhumanism should reject politics, I encourage you to read this: Technology is NOT Enough!