The trip culminates in Washington, where Zoltan posts a Transhumanist Bill of Rights on the Capitol Building. Bartlett joins Zoltan Istvan Gyurko, the Los Angeles-based presidential candidate of the Transhumanist Party, as he campaigns across several states in an “immortality bus” remade to look like a coffin. First up: the “transhumanists,” technophiles who believe that man and machine should merge and that “any rational person should spend their every waking moment on a quest to stay alive.” Mr. Bartlett provides a series of profiles of radicals in action. The consensus that defines “ ‘normal’ political ideas,” he says, has been blown apart-and that’s a good thing. In “Radicals Chasing Utopia,” the British journalist Jamie Bartlett sets out to describe and understand this new spirit of radicalism. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Imagesįrom Islamists to angry populists to militant environmentalists, liberal democratic societies face growing pressure from movements that want to shatter the status quo and replace it with a new and (to them) better order. Beppe Grillo of Italy’s Five Star Movement.
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