IN OUR OWN IMAGE: Eugenics and the Genetic Modification of People

By David J. Galton

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316855928
• ISBN13: 9780316855921
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

THE BRAVE NEW WORLD IS FINALLY HERE

In the 1998-2004 time-frame, the 1931 book--The Brave New World caome true with the successful "reading" of the Human Genomic DNA super-structure. We do NOT have to wait to create the Alphas, and Betas and other neo-Huxleyian sub-stratum, envisioned for the late 27th Century. We can do it in the 2005- 2028 time-frame. It's is true Social Darwinism in a test-tube. The book I am reviewing-The Future of Human Life In The 21st Century should be regarded as a not-so-subtle warning of what Science can do, with the best of intentions, but with results that may very well "backfire". The 1997 movie "Gattaca", with it's prophecy of Pre-Natal Genetic Determinism, is within 3-to-6 years of being SCIENCE FACT. Cloning is NOT the way, as the person being "cloned" passes along recessive genetic traits. The "answer", so to speak, will be some form of "Designer People", like in "Gattaca". Population Control is a "MUST" for the 21st and 22nd Centuries. This does not mean an updated version of the 1935 Nuremburg Laws on Race, but the "Future" MUST be based on certain Neo-Huxleyian Concepts, with a "dash" of a humane "Gattaca" scenario. The Brave New World is here. We must be BRAVE in it in, and beyond, the 21st Century. Already, Community. Stability, and Identity, the slogan of the Huxleyian Brave New World, exists now. The "herd" is replacing the Individual. Elitism controls our two main political parties.Forget the conspiracy-mongers: we are all a part of this "Nirvana" of the Facelessness. The World will be just be "one happy corporation", dumbed-down, and "drugged down". I recommend The Future of Human Life In The 21st Century!! DR. Nick Stage-PHD. Zionsville, Indiana