{"id":8334,"date":"2022-01-20T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:03:39","slug":"stolyarov-kerecz-reflections-anticipations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2022\/01\/stolyarov-kerecz-reflections-anticipations\/","title":{"rendered":"Gennady Stolyarov II and John Kerecz: Reflections on 2021, Anticipations for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/logo_bg-150x150.png\" alt=\"logo_bg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gennady Stolyarov II<br \/>\nJohn Kerecz<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JHLeFRw3Ca4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">On January 14, 2022, U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/leadership\/#GennadyStolyarovII\">Gennady Stolyarov II<\/a>\u00a0was interviewed by U.S. Transhumanist Party Director of Energy Issues\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/leadership\/#JohnKerecz\">John Kerecz<\/a>\u00a0on OSH Radio, for a retrospective conversation about how 2021 turned out relative to prior anticipations, as well as key developments to watch for in 2022. Subjects discussed included the precarious nature of contemporary civilization, the immense and ongoing perils of deadly diseases, how technology has affected both the opportunities and the constraints of contemporary life, the problems of political polarization and the two-party system, the need for a new paradigm of an abundance economy and society, the U.S. Transhumanist Party\u2019s aspirations and projects, the Virtual Enlightenment Salons (John Kerecz is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gTuaKE5rX1g\">scheduled to be a guest<\/a>\u00a0on January 23, 2022, to discuss his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpCdNYq1Cag\">2014 flight to the edge of space<\/a>), some reminiscences about earlier USTP history, and contrasts between in-person and virtual interactions. In this interview Mr. Stolyarov discusses his understanding that we live in a make-or-break moment in human history, and that the future trajectory of the human species will depend on what we do in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch this video on YouTube\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JHLeFRw3Ca4\">here<\/a>\u00a0and on Odysee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@GStolyarovII:0\/gennady-stolyarov-ii-and-john-kerecz:f\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"odysee-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/gennady-stolyarov-ii-and-john-kerecz\/f454741c648cb8d5aac727a816a536db79dc9d6a?r=DTZ19ab4kLWVrn6PifKoZaJd1kkYQ3YC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/01\/scarcity-crisis-college-housing-health-care\/621221\/\">A Simple Plan to Solve All of America\u2019s Problems<\/a>\u201d \u2013 Article by Derek Thompson \u2013 The Atlantic \u2013 January 12, 2022 \u2013<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/membership\">U.S. Transhumanist Party Free Membership<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/\">U.S. Transhumanist Party Website<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTranshumanist\">U.S. Transhumanist Party on Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ustranshumanistparty\/\">U.S. Transhumanist Party on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3-482x270.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GSII_John_Kerecz_1-14-2022_3.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gennady Stolyarov II John Kerecz On January 14, 2022, U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman\u00a0Gennady Stolyarov II\u00a0was interviewed by U.S. Transhumanist Party Director of Energy Issues\u00a0John Kerecz\u00a0on OSH Radio, for a retrospective conversation about how 2021 turned out relative to prior anticipations, as well as key developments to watch for in 2022. Subjects discussed included the precarious nature of contemporary civilization, the immense and ongoing perils of deadly diseases, how technology has affected both the opportunities and the constraints of contemporary life,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2022\/01\/stolyarov-kerecz-reflections-anticipations\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,104],"tags":[5868,5869,530,5870,5871,441,2135,5828,314,40,1768,5748,5749,5829,4788,95,109,1244],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transhumanism","tag-5868","tag-5869","tag-abundance","tag-abundance-agenda","tag-algorithmic-censorship","tag-censorship","tag-communication","tag-covid-19","tag-future","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gennady-stolyarov-ii","tag-john-j-kerecz","tag-john-kerecz","tag-pandemic","tag-polarization","tag-progress","tag-technology","tag-two-party-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}