It should also be noted that The Order of Skull and Bones surrounds neurosurgeon, Eric Leuthardt: another transhumanist pioneer who performs brain surgeries which implant computer chips into human brains for the purposes of treating cerebral-nervous disabilities. At Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, where Leuthardt conducts his transhumanist brain-chip surgeries, Bonesman Regis James O'Keefe is the Chair of Orthopedic Surgery [7]. Additionally, alongside faculty members Leuthardt and Bonesman O'Keefe, there is Bonesman Bryan Fitch Myers, who is the Patrick and Joy Williamson Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine [8].
According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review , the Bones-acquainted "Leuthardt believes that in the next several decades such [brain] implants will be like plastic surgery or tattoos, undertaken with hardly a second thought." In fact, Leuthardt even wrote a transhumanist science fiction novel, "a techno-thriller called Red Devil 4, [in which] 90 percent of human beings have elected to get computer hardware implanted directly into their brains."
A Eugenics by Any Other Name:
The concept of transhumanism was coined by Julian Huxley , who was the brother of Aldous Huxley: the author of the dystopic Brave New World. In Julian's 1957 New Bottles for New Wine, he wrote a chapter titled "Transhumanism," which proclaims "'I believe in transhumanism' . . . a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking [prehistoric] man" [9]. For Julian Huxley, who was a President of the British Eugenics Society , transhumanism is the culmination of a "scientific eugenics," project that requires a new form of "evolution" in which natural biological selection is replaced with an artificial technological selection that merges humans and machines into a new cyborg species.
As the first Director General of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Huxley authored UNESCO's 1948 mission statement, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy, which calls for a global eugenics program: "[i]t is, however, essential that eugenics should be brought entirely within the borders of science, for, as already indicated, in the not very remote future the problem of improving the average quality of human beings is likely to become urgent; and this can only be accomplished by applying the findings of a truly scientific eugenics" [10]. Moreover, this founding UNESCO document asserts that techno-eugenic "[e]volution in the human sector consists mainly of changes in the form of society, in tools and machines . . . [I]t is in social organisation, in machines, and in ideas that human evolution is mostly made manifest" [11].
It should be noted that as Director General of UNESCO, Huxley collaborated with the first US delegate to sit on the governing board of UNESCO, Bonesman Archibald MacLeish, who authored the Preamble to the UNESCO Constitution [12]. Other ties between globalist eugenics and The Order of Skull and Bones are linked through Bonesman Percy Rockefeller's uncle [13], John D. Rockefeller, who used his tax-exempt Rockefeller Foundation to pour money into Nazi eugenics projects at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics; the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry; and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research [14]. The Rockefeller Foundation also paid large sums to American eugenics institutions such as Charles Davenport's Cold Spring Harbor Station for Experimental Evolution, which was established with the help of another Robber Baron philanthropy: the Carnegie Institute where Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman was its first President [15].
Davenport's Cold Spring Harbor eugenics laboratory was eventually fused with the Eugenics Record Office, which was erected with substantial donations of money and land from railroad magnate E. H. Harriman's wife, Mary Williamson Harriman(ne'e Averell), who was the mother of Bonesmen W. Averell Harriman and E. Roland Harriman [16]. E. Roland would later aid in financing the Nazi-eugenic takeover of Germany through his influence at Union Banking Corporation (UBC), which funneled capital to Hitler through one of the Fuhrer's major financial backers: the German industrialist owner of UBC, Fritz Thyssen, whose fellow-Nazi banking partners, H. J. Kouwenhoven and J. L. Guinter, sat on the UBC Board of Directors along with E. Roland and his fellow Bonesmen, Knight Woolley and Prescott Bush, the latter of whom was the father of Bonesman George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of Bonesman George W. Bush [17]. According to a 1989 Louisville Courier-Journal article, there is a room in the Temple of The Order on the Yale campus wherein the Bones "Tomb" houses "a little Nazi shrine inside, [and] one room on the second floor has a bunch of swastikas, kind of an SS macho iconography" [18].
On Second Thought?
From The Order of Skull and Bones to DARPA to Technocracy Inc., the history behind transhumanist brain-computer interfaces is a dark legacy of militarized, techno-fascist eugenics. Today, Facebook's and Neuralink's human-computer interfaces are being advertised as hi-tech commodities that are manufactured for the "greater good" of enhancing cognition and administering medical assistance for people with epilepsy, paralysis, and other neurological disabilities.
To be sure, the future of neural-implant computer-tech may promise a utopian new age of scientific miracles that merge humans and machines into an internet-of-everything "Singularity." But where the digital rubber meets the silicon road to an artificially intelligent cyborg future, the sordid past of technocratically weaponized eugenics may catch up to the current fork in the road where humankind decides whether to take a "great leap forward" and "evolve" into a new species that "upgrades" its biology with computerized electronics.
Buyer beware: consuming transhumanist technological products that are labeled as "utopian" may result in dystopian side-effects.
References:
[1] Jose' M. R. Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (New York: Harper Colophon, 1969), 90-91.
[2] Joseph C. Keating Jr. and Scott Haldeman, "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950," Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association 39 no. 3 (1995): 172-186.
[3] Kris Millegan, Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003), 637.
[4] Ibid.
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