Enhanced Games: wot if sports but with techbro bazinga bullshit? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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If you haven't heard of the Enchanced Games, it's basically the Olympics except substance use isn't banned. It's funded by the likes of Peter Thiel and there's a bunch of tech bros behind the event, with the website being full of descriptions like ”unlock the full potential of humanity” similar to the language used by singularity cultists and appeals to science.

The most nauseating thing, though, is that they appropriate the rhetoric of anti-imperialist and anti-discrimination movements on their website. https://enhanced.org/inclusive-language/ https://enhanced.org/on-campus/

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[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

just pure treat brain. "let's see how far the human body can go" okay what about the athlete's health? no? the well-being of the person producing your entertainment means less than nothing to you? ok. "well they're making a choice to take that stuff" yeah when you feel like you were put on earth to do one thing incredibly well, gifted the ability to turn your body into a work of art in motion through time, and the only route available to you for expressing that requires you to take a bunch of life-shortening drugs with terrible side effects, people are gonna take those drugs.