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The obsession with manipulating reality—via genetic editing, AI, or other technologies—risks losing sight of the fundamental human condition. Transhumanist visions of chips in the brain or enhanced intelligence are critiqued as dangerous, potentially opening pathways to abuse, manipulation, and loss of free will. Misuse of technology threatens to reduce individuals to data points, manipulated by powerful elites, undermining democracy and authentic human agency.