Part 16. Singularity: Mitchell Heisman and the End of God

Part 16 treats Heisman's Suicide Note, catalogued as "a ~1900-page philosophical treatise interrogating reason, meaning, free will, God, and self-destruction". It follows his thesis that "God is Technology" and that monotheism was a proto-Singularity.

Chapters 159–166

  1. The Last Testament of a Rationalist: Mitchell Heisman's Suicide Note as a Work, Its Architecture and Its 'Experiment in Nihilism'
  2. 'God is Technology': Monotheism as Proto-Singularity and the Genesis of God
  3. The Jewish Question as Heisman Presents It: Judaism as Sociobiological Technology, Chosenness and Survival
  4. 'The Seditious Genius of the Spiritual Penis of Jesus': Christianity, Kin Selection and the Christian Origins of Modern Liberalism
  5. 'Absolute Purity': Nazism, Auschwitz as Secularised Hell, and the Death of God after Nietzsche
  6. A Vendetta Called Revolution: Heisman's Sociobiology of Liberal Democracy, Secularisation and Political Order
  7. Creating God: The Singularity, Transhumanism and AI as God-Making from Heisman to Kurzweil
  8. Ends of the World Compared: Heisman, Keshe and the Traditional Eschatologies from Zoroaster to the Singularity

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Chapter 159. The Last Testament of a Rationalist: Mitchell Heisman’s Suicide Note as a Work, Its Architecture and Its ‘Experiment in Nihilism’

Part XVI turns to a single book that tries to explain religion from outside. It reads monotheism, Christianity, Nazism and Anglo-American liberal democracy as stages of one sociobiological and technological process, and it presents its author’s death as the last…

Chapter 162. ‘The Seditious Genius of the Spiritual Penis of Jesus’: Christianity, Kin Selection and the Christian Origins of Modern Liberalism

The second treatise of Part I of Mitchell Heisman’s Suicide Note carries the subtitle “How Christianity’s Subversion of Kin Selective Altruism Evolved into the Modern Idea of Social Progress” and runs from page 359 to page 506 of the 2010…

Chapter 163. ‘Absolute Purity’: Nazism, Auschwitz as Secularised Hell, and the Death of God after Nietzsche

The third treatise of Part I of Heisman’s Suicide Note, “Absolute Purity”, carries the subtitle “The Secularization of Hell within the Desecration Machine of Auschwitz” and covers pages 507-630 [Heisman, Suicide Note, #38252, “Overview”]. Its four movements are as follows.…

Chapter 164. A Vendetta Called Revolution: Heisman’s Sociobiology of Liberal Democracy, Secularisation and Political Order

Part II is the larger half of Suicide Note. It contains three treatises: “A Vendetta Called Revolution: How Ethnic Hostility between Anglo-Saxons and the Normans Who Conquered Them Evolved into Liberal Democracy” (pp.631-1157); “Converse Cognates: Why the Norman Conquest was…

Chapter 165. Creating God: The Singularity, Transhumanism and AI as God-Making from Heisman to Kurzweil

Mitchell Heisman’s last treatise is subtitled “Why Liberal Democracy Leads to the Rational Biological Self-Destruction of Humans and the Rational Technological Creation of God” [Heisman, Suicide Note, #38252, table of contents]. For Heisman, “the Singularity would be the technological genesis…

Chapter 166. Ends of the World Compared: Heisman, Keshe and the Traditional Eschatologies from Zoroaster to the Singularity

This chapter closes Part 16. It sets Mitchell Heisman’s “technological genesis of God” [Heisman, Suicide Note, #38252, Part I] beside the eschatologies traced through this study, from the Zoroastrian renovation to Jewish, Christian and Islamic apocalyptic and modern political millenarianism.…