Wesley J. Smith is a conservative bioethicist that seems to have a very good idea of what exactly is happening to his antiquated Judeo-Christian system of values. He says:

“The coup de culture, as I have defined it, is the process by which the reigning cultural value system of human exceptionalism–which is itself founded in the moral philosophy of Judeo-Christianity/humanism– is being subverted and replaced by a new paradigm steeped in utilitarianism/hedonism/radical environmentalism. The consequence has been an all out attack on the unique importance of human life, pounded constantly into the consciousness of the general population by outlets of popular culture and a biased media.”

I would say, as Smith has in other posts, that the new paradigm is utilitarian utopianism. This is quickly evolving into an immortalist utilitarianism that denies death itself. Unlike some other utilitarian utopians, I am not afraid to come out and say I am a utopian. Look at how open I leave myself by making this statement. I am completely vulnerable to accusations that utopianism is a recurrent irrational human psychological attractor. Note that by “utopia”, I do not mean “perfect” — such a quality is vulnerable to definitional fuzziness — I just mean “much much better than what we experience now”.

This position sets me apart from some technoprogressive transhumanists who are non-utopian, like James Hughes.

Because Smith doesn’t watch the media or play the video games of the younger crowd, he probably doesn’t have that great of an idea just how much this new, emerging belief system is intertwined with the zeitgeist of youth. In the world of young people, this new belief system has already won. This is something that even some transhumanists seem not to realize.