The first step in Transhumanism is when you decide to be no longer satisfied with your being human. You consciously want to be more, and even more than that, you want to remake yourself.
Religion can be such a program, guilt another one and, more general, believe in authority.
Another negative program, a meme you very often find in modern literature, is that we humans are fallible. Although we might not be perfect, we have the possibility to grow and develop ourselves. The sky is the limit. So, before we start, let's look what we need. Let s start with Independency .