A Future I Don't Want: A Rant by Connor -

[Connor Bible]

Peter Lanza, the father of this boy Adam, was interviewed recently, and the things he said chilled me to the bone. I wish that he was never born. Those words have been echoing in my head since yesterday. I've been thinking long and hard, about human nature, our flaws, and what we can do to prevent another Adam. A terrifying vision of the future entered my mind.

With prenatal genetic screening a reality, the concept of designer babies is slowly becoming a reality. Within a decade, parents will be able to choose the traits of their dream child. These "perfect children", born to wealthy and influential families, would come of age in a world where they are the subjects of envy by the Average Joe. They're harder, better, faster, stronger. Eventually, the Over-Children will become Over-Men and Women, and potentially reach positions of power and influence greater than their parents, like the Oval Office, for instance. Having been created and raised in a world rife with human error and fault, they would come to the conclusion that, in an effort to prevent tragedies like another Holocaust or Newtown massacre and to validate their own feelings of superiority, we the Average Joes will have to be subjugated (if not outright eliminated) by The Over-Party for the good of the Earth. UnThought, mindless and unquestioning complacency, is the order of the day. Thought and sexcrime are grave sins in the eyes of the Over-People, for it is free thought and sexual love that necessitated their takeover in the first place. When not being rounded up and slaughtered on a daily basis, the Average Joes are left to their own devices in the ghettos while the Over-People, the citizens of the State, live in luxury within the cities, living luxurious, but empty lives under the watchful eye of Thought Control, the night-walking Sex Squads and other bodies of the powers that be.

I apologize for the rambling. Apparently, I've been reading too much dystopian literature.

 

[Oglooger]

Not if we kill these false "Aryans" first.
The earth is for those who were created through natural means and were lucky enough to pass the genetic casino, not these soulless false mutants.
Human Pride world wide.

 

[exball]

Are you trying to write a book it something? I demand royalties.

 

[Connor Bible]

Sorry. I have an overactive imagination and I'm a very deep thinker.

 

[Andrew Noel Schaefer]

Then you come to the right place!

 

[Connor Bible]

Thanks.

Does anyone think that a future like this is plausible?

 

[Watcher]

This is starting to remind me of Star Trek's Eugenics War.

Basically in Star Trek's mythos. World War 3 occurred in the 20th century by a series of men called "Augments". Who were genetically superior in almost every way to common people, and who essentially became warlords who enslaved ordinary people. It took several years to eventually round up all the augments and even 300 years later it was illegal to genetically alter a person for any reason other than curing them of diseases or ailments. There's a lot of really good episodes of Star Trek that deal with this subject.

 

[The Dude]

Cuddlebug beat me to the Star Trek Eugenics Wars reference. Want to be able to protect yourself from those who would oppress you? Make sure the right to keep and bear arms is never infringed. That's what the Second Amendment is all about.

 

[Connor Bible]

I seriously doubt, in a society like I described, anyone not in the military, Thought Control, or the Sex Squads would even be allowed to think about self-defense.

 

[The Dude]

That's why it's important to keep self defense and firearms ownership an inalienable right NOW so that it will be our's still in the future.

 

[A-Stump]

Nature values chaos. There is no room or lasting effect for 'perfection' in the world. You are also valuing the genetic structure over experience, conditioning, and cultural phenomena.

 

[hm yeah]

I'm more concerned with trademarking/patenting genes and alleles like Monsanto has been doing for years.

edit: really clever wordfilter there, didn't see that coming

 

[The Dude]

Nature values chaos. There is no room or lasting effect for 'perfection' in the world. You are also valuing the genetic structure over experience, conditioning, and cultural phenomena.

If every living soul who was what we now consider "imperfect" were suddenly eliminated in a mass genocide by the people we genetically engineered to be what we now consider "perfect" the surviving "perfect" society would stagnate and fall.

 

[Ouija Board]

This reminds me of the movie Gattacca where genetically engineered people were superior to "God children" and had the better jobs, money, etc while the God children were treated as second class citizens.

 

[Connor Bible]

At least they didn't crowd them into ghettos or practice genocide, like in my vision of the future.

 

[Oglooger]

We as God Children should rule over.
Why should our creations defy us?

 

[Carlson]

Dude, we already get hysteria over vaccinations to the point where almost entirely eliminated diseases are returning to wreak havoc because one guy published a falsified report that got stupid parents in a tizzy. Socialized healthcare causes millions of Americans to panic and attempt to shoot minorities on reflex.

Genetic engineering of children would last for less than one generation before mass protests result in it becoming a rarity.

 

[The Dude]

At least they didn't crowd them into ghettos or practice genocide, like in my vision of the future.

So, basically Über-Nazis.

 

[Payday]

This is why we must stop the rich from becoming this rich. A socialist future is a safe future. If we ever see the day that a eugenics child is made they'll be thrown into a river and their parents burned on a religious symbol!

Seriously though my thoughts are normally about preventing your vision of dystopia.

 

[bradsternum]

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