Everything constructed can be deconstructed

Many feminists consider this system oppressive, unfair, and even abnormal. They believe the nuclear family reflects patriarchalism, forming the basis for socialisation within the context of this hierarchal power structure, justifying the systematic oppression of women. Within this context, they further perceive the family as teaching children gender roles to perpetuate gender roles in broader society, delaying and harming the establishment of gender equality. Without deconstructing this structure, women’s emancipation and social justice are impossible.

Transgender activists take this deconstruction to the next level, propagating that gender identity is a self-perceptive, indeed subjective, “fact,” but not a biologically determined or determinable factor. Some further stipulate that no biological objectivity should be allowed to define gender identity as it sustains such a narrow, exclusive, and dangerous binary structure.

Is there anything left to define a human being objectively? Previously, we were defined by our psychological components, religion, culture, or nation. However, in social constructivism and deconstructivism, these notions are gradually being questioned and understood as inadequate and oppressive within overt and covert frameworks of social constructs. Our identity, in this context, is not a fixed point but a fluid reality, an endless simulation process, an expression of self-perception and self-definition. It is a self-liberating construct—it allows us to define ourselves not by traditional, social, or rational categories but by how we feel about ourselves: I am how I feel myself. I should not be presumptuously stereotyped into a previously socially accepted taxonomy as a definition of somebody.

Transhumanism takes this discussion to an extreme and perhaps ultimate level. It is a new philosophical and scientific movement advocating for advanced technologies to enhance our physical and cognitive abilities by creating a hybrid human species with a combination of AI and human body, i.e., human brains. While sounding like a science fiction novel, this is what Elon Musk is promoting and investing in, promoted as the future of humanity. This future defines humanity as a half-biological and half-artificial, i.e., a half-human and half-machine beast. The most worrisome aspect of this post-human condition is that all fundamental aspects of our human reality, emotions, desires, and idiosyncrasies as the basis of our highly subjective existence, may either be reconstructed or re-engineered into something new or unhuman.

We are heading toward a destination where what is historically constructed is socially de-constructible, and what is socially de-constructible is, in turn, technologically reconstructable. The aim is to create an unprecedented and revolutionary new human species for the “greater good.”  

In the future age of transhumanism, AI may make everything objectified, rationalised, and universalised. It may irreversibly synthesise all dichotomies that “bother” us. Furthermore, without or with engineered emotions, desires, and whims, we will all become homogeneously de-individualised, permanently imprisoned in a gigantic universal intelligence, and systematically remotely controlled as cyborgs by losing our humanness strangely and certainly.