Get Ready for a New Human Species
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For those that are unfamiliar with Enriquez, he may not be the most flashy of the science superstars currently on the scene, but he is not exactly a nobody either. Enriquez was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project and is currently chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC., a “life sciences research and investment firm” and managing director of Excel Venture Management. He is the author of numerous books, including As The Future Catches You: How Genomics And Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth and The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.
Enriquez also serves on the boards of Cabot Corporation, The Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council, The Chairman’s International Council of the America’s Society, the Visiting Committee of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center, Tuft University’s EPIIC, and Harvard Business School’s PAPSAC.
Enriquez is a Harvard graduate himself who has previously served as CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation, Coordinator General of Economic Policy and Chief of Staff for Mexico’s Secretary of State. Enriquez also boasts of working closely with Craig Venter, who is generally credited with the mapping of the human genome.
Obviously, Enriquez has established quite the résumé in the academic and business worlds. This, combined with his appearances on the very popular TED conference talks, only add to his qualifications in the field of culture creation which is most likely his role. Indeed, much like the other scientific superstars provided to the public by the culture industry, it appears Mr. Enriquez may be more talented in the area of delivering messages than making discoveries. This is why Enriquez’s comments during the interview with Technology Review’s Emily Singer are somewhat disturbing.
The interview was conducted after Enriquez’s speech at a Technology Review conference where he mentioned that, as described by Singer, “Our newfound ability to write the code of life will profoundly change the world as we know it.” According to Enriquez, because we as humans can engineer both our environment and ourselves, humanity is now breaking the “boundaries” of our own natural existence and development....
...Nevertheless, when asked why he thought there is going to be a new human species, Enriquez responded in typical eugenicist fashion. He said,
The new human species is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin’s rules get significantly bent, and sometimes even broken. By taking direct and deliberate control over our evolution, we are living in a world where we are modifying stuff according to our desires....
...Enriquez saves the best for last, however, when he explains how the “new ethics” will come into play.
He says:
The issue of [genetic variation] is a really uncomfortable question, one that for good reason, we have been avoiding since the 1930s and ’40s. A lot of the research behind the eugenics movement came out of elite universities in the U.S. It was disastrously misapplied. But you do have to ask, if there are fundamental differences in species like dogs and horses and birds, is it true that there are no significant differences in humans? We are going to have an answer to that question very quickly. If we do, we need to think through an ethical, moral framework to think about questions that go way beyond science.
This statement alone echoes the same mentality that was accepted and promoted during the early half of twentieth century to justify mass sterilization, institutionalization, social segregation.
Although eugenics is now allegedly abhorred by academia and the mainstream media, the fact is that it still plays as much a role in both science and government policy as it ever did. Only the names have changed.
Instead of “eugenics” and “racial hygiene,” the scientific community now promotes “social biology” and “sociobiology.” “Deficient” genes now replace the term “inferior” genes.
As quoted above, Enriquez stated that eugenics were disastrously misapplied in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he does not clarify whether he is referring to the American or the German version (or both), we can reasonably assume that he meant that the program was often race-based, as opposed to being based simply on “inferior genetics” across the board. Or, perhaps he is merely referring to the public relations issues that arose from these systems. At this point, it is difficult to determine.
Regardless, he openly questions whether or not some humans are so different from one another that they may be considered an entirely different species. This, in and of itself, is reminiscent of a language used in eugenics campaigns in both Europe and America years ago....
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http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=17589
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artemis6
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This man has a disturbing lack of morals and compassion .... AND he is wrong . We cannot even control clones with ANY reliability . There is Much we do not yet understand , we are no where NEAR delivering on this .
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artemis6
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Kelly_Balthrop
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Sorry, but I fail to see the fear here. The only place I've read about this being applied is in determining if certain racial lines carry genes that have a propensity toward some medical condition, like heart disease. If all it does is make certain people aware that they need to be more careful, then it's a good thing. Where we have to be careful is the insurance companies denying people or increasing costs based on genetic heritage.
In the very near future they will have germ line genetic modification therapies. If you could determine you were at high risk for breast cancer, or early onset Alzheimers because of a genetic trait you inherited, and someone told you that they could fix your genes and the genes of any children you may have, would you not take it.
Right now it's all pie in the sky, and so images of dystopian sci-fi nightmares are running through your head. As the science develops, and people become used to the beneficial aspects of it, the fears will fade. A few hundred years ago, you could be imprisoned for performing an autopsy on a corpse, and the though of taking organs out of dead people, and putting them in other people, would have been the ultimate Frankenstein nightmare. Times change and what seems ghastly today may be commonplace tomorrow.
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Kelly_Balthrop
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JanforGore
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Isn't that actually what GMOs are? Aren't we all living in one large petrie dish while biotech companies unregulated experiment with us with their genetically spliced DNA intraspecies bt bacteria infused seeds?
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JanforGore
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wally60
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JanforGore:
absolutly right jan.how long before they release something that wipes out half or all the world.they are playing with fire.
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wally60
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coolplanet
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Okay, this is when science starts to scare me!
- 6 months ago
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coolplanet
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Gravity_Man
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coolplanet:
There's more. Method. First they show the future they want to happen in Sci-Fi movies & TV for a period of time to get the public wanting & expecting it to be REAL [or brain-numbed de-sensitized to the horror] then they come around and start "making it so Number One" you see.
The Bible Anti~Christ has been doing this for many decades now. They have mastered Play-it-Forward. As always grasshopper they got their Game Plan from the Bible. They observe what God is said to have then they cause it to happen for them.
Expect Armageddon soon.
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Gravity_Man
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coolplanet
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Gravity_Man:
I still think Ronal6 Wilso6 Reaga6 is "the antichrist" and the mark of the beast is the UPC which he introduced to the world while governor of California.
I love how he retired to 666 St. Cloud Dr. in 1989!
Beam me up, Scotty, this planet is inhabited by morons. - 6 months ago
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coolplanet
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Gravity_Man
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coolplanet:
Satan was hurled from Heaven (Rev. Ch 12) down here and that's when the world went good n crazy => 1914. Not knowing what to do, perhaps not being overly smart, Satan copied Jesus and chose apostles to do his work for him.
That's the Anti~Christ, a conglomerate of folks, not just one. I'm sure you would feel more comfortable believing only one.
They appear to be winning like a crowd....
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Gravity_Man
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coolplanet
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Gravity_Man:
Actually the prophet Daniel said their would be three last beasts: the old goat from the west, the raiser of taxes (read my lips) and the flatterer who is worse than them all.
Guess who I think the flatterer is? - 6 months ago
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coolplanet
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Gravity_Man
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coolplanet:
We have known the United Nations was the first "image" of the wild beast since 1942. The image (League of Nations) is the beast that WAS, but is not, and then rose again rejuvenated under a new name.
I prefer the Watchtower Society as my source of Bible instruction to your mind because they have a proven track record OF BEING RIGHT.
You're in the shark pool paddling alone.
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Gravity_Man
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Nick19
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Nothing more than paranoid assumptions.
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Nick19
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infiniteblackbox
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Technology aside the human animal is still physically evolving today although not in any drastic physical appearances.
I was born without wisdom teeth or the bud spots from which they grow.
I have a slimmer jaw line and an extra vertebra in my neck.
I have been told by both my orthopedic surgeon and dentists that both of these occurrences are becoming more common and within 100 years will be the norm.
What purpose eliminating wisdom teeth and an extra vertebra will serve is beyond me.
Maybe the extra vertebra is to prepare humans to text the rest of their lives and never look up.
Better put and eyeball on top of your head though. - 6 months ago
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infiniteblackbox
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attilatheblond
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infiniteblackbox:
I always thought a third arm, on a ball socket would be handy to have on the top of one's head. So much easier to get the stuff on the top shelf, or adjust one's glasses.
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attilatheblond
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
If a person has no wisdom teeth but an extra vertebra it would mean the wisdom tooth material was re-routed into new vertebra material.
Sounds like genetic damage, not evolution. Like sometimes a fish will have both its eyes on one side, it still has two eyes. Your sum total is likely what it was supposed to be you've just been re-arranged.
The wisdom teeth stuff could've made extra fingers or toes but seems like that wouldn't have been enough material for the swap so you got the lesser swap, more vertebra. Actually it could've killed ya by stretching the spinal nerve and/or blood vessel, and should you be in an accident that involves WHIPLASH you very well could be gone from this world.
If that is true, that your banjo strings are extra tight, and 100 years from now it would be "the norm", then 100 years from now a buncha folks better wear protective football gear. Fortunately I don't believe any doctors when they say something like that because the conditions that caused it in the first place could very easily change, or reverse, and it would stop.
But, since the main trunk nerve and blood vessels are not hard tissue we can probably assume as you were growing in the womb they were growing to meet the new length so you're probably okay. I recall somewhere in Africa there's a tribe, or was it India, anyway maybe Sumatra, where they begin placing these rings around their necks causing the head to be pushed higher. It's very fashionable. You're being saved the cost of those rings!!!
People like those doctors making that projection, they do that because they've been indoctrinated in medical schools to believe evolution is true, so they want so desperately for evolution to stop being a Theory that they apply it to your issue to make themselves right. The human mind DESPISES BEING WRONG just like UFO's. People will get to believing in alien visitors from Outer Space to such a degree, wanting to see one so bad to prove they are right that finally their Mind will manufacture them some UFO's constructed from a combining together of all the UFO's they've seen in movies and TV.
Ya hafta be real careful my friend whenever people tell you something as if it is the Gospel Truth that it is something they've subconsciously manufactured and FOOLED THEIR CONSCIOUS MIND. Now you take my web page http://tinyurl.com/69jobopenings where I revealed a number of "Stargate-level Space~Time Collisions" as I called them that is pure Math, the language one would expect to be CONTACTED FROM SPACE. Math & Calendars do not lie.
You have to be very discerning who you allow to plant false seeds inside your head. Some people have an over-developed need to be Puppet Masters of others. They seem to get off on it, makes em feel superior or something.
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox
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attilatheblond:
i always thought a second penis on top of the head would be appropriate.
that way women would stop saying "think with your head and not your dick" - 6 months ago
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infiniteblackbox
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attilatheblond
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infiniteblackbox:
No, it would just open men up for being called ----heads more often
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attilatheblond
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man:
WOW
SRY I PREFER TO THINK THAT I AM HUMAN 2.0 INSTEAD OF GENETICALLY DAMAGED.
BUT THANKS FOR THE THOUGHT
ooppps
stupid caps lock
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
Yeah. I noticed that about you but, there are many here who are actually INTELLIGENT and they read my posts not yours. My keyboard has a caps lock somebody smarter than you made it so. If you don't want to use it that's your business. I'm a free man. Enjoy your stupid chains.
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man:
Yet no one engages you in conversation.
I have read many of your posts. Mostly gibberish. Nothing I have read is intelligent. I fact it smacks of schizophrenia.
Fragmented thinking is characteristic of schizophrenia. Externally, it can be observed in the way a person speaks. People with schizophrenia tend to have trouble concentrating and maintaining a train of thought. They may respond to queries with an unrelated answer, start sentences with one topic and end somewhere completely different, speak incoherently, or say illogical things.example from post made 12 days ago
"Here lies Herman Cain, business genius driven to the top [where nice-looking really white women tread]. Cain isn't the first Tiger Woods around to be engaging that extra leg. It keeps the prostate healthy. I seriously doubt Mr. Cain [now a politically-deceased Republican corpse] could keep up with a white Dunkin' Donuts franchise owner though. I've observed them to be quite frisky rolling the dough on white women minimum wage employees."seek medication my friend.
it can help. - 6 months ago
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
You excel at Personal Attacks eh? You won't be here long. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Go ahead though, show us your Great Intellect oh superior Big Mouth.
Strrut your stuff. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Gravity_Man
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
I also look forward to your writing more about the big dick coming out the top of your head Sane Boy.
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man:
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you attacked me first
go back up one post."Yeah. I noticed that about you but, there are many here who are actually INTELLIGENT and they read my posts not yours. My keyboard has a caps lock somebody smarter than you made it so. If you don't want to use it that's your business. I'm a free man. Enjoy your stupid chains."
i am telling you.
medication will help you re-grasp reality.
i wish you the best in that endeavor.
i know mental illness can be tough.
god bless you. - 6 months ago
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infiniteblackbox
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
Yep. Big, Big Intellect there.
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Gravity_Man
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Gravity_Man
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infiniteblackbox:
Obama (D) holding the door open for Cain (R) to take the President's chair doesn't have much to do with anybody's mental status => it's a slick Jeremiah Wright Marines-class military maneuver.
So, you want someone to believe you read all the way back though 12 days of my posts eh? That should've bumped your IQ up 25 points. Obviously it didn't so someone fed you the ball.
I prefer Vierotchka or Congoboy. They aren't amateurs.
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Gravity_Man
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VoyagerFilms
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Aw, the plans of mice and men! Man thinks it's greater than God and the Universe and yet, time and time again man has proven itself not to be
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VoyagerFilms
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Saladin
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Sensationalism and nonsense.
This person is trying to take totally benign comments and pretend as if it's the coming of the Fourth Reich.
It's true that there are some scary questions to answer in a world where we can easily manipulate our own genes, but that doesn't mean asking those questions makes you a eugenicist.
If, for instance, we could eliminate Down Syndrome entirely, would it be "eugenicist" to have a government mandate forcing the cure to be applied in developing pregnancies?
Obviously, there are terrifying implications as to what this technology could do. But it's also impossible to talk about in any other way.
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Saladin
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Dagum
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Saladin:
We have a dark, sordid history of eugenics. (It was even part of our case law in the 20th century), And it bears heavily on these current developments.
A study of the history of the Eugenics movement reveals that it didn't start in Nazi Germany but right here in the U.S. of A. around 1896.
By 1912 the First International Congress of Eugenics was supported by many prominent persons, including: its president Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin. This lead to the merging of American and British Eugenics theory
While the theory was very popular among elites such as Alexander Graham Bell, and J.P. Morgan, it didn't gain widespread application until the 1920's. By the 1920's the mindset of the people at the time was that eugenics was thought of as "hard science" just like chemistry. Many states such as Virgina passed laws to implement the eugenics agenda in which blacks, the mental infirm, alcoholics and those deemed by the state to be promiscuous were forcefully sterilized.
In one of the most abhorrent court cases in U.S history, Buck v. Bell (1927) Carrie Buck, an adopted child who reached sixth grade was deemed " feeble-minded" and "incorrigible" after she got pregnant illegitimately. In 1923 she was sterilized by that state without her knowledge believing she was going in for a standard medical procedure. When she found out she sued. ( it was later reveled she was raped by a caretaker and had an average IQ.)
In 1927 he Supreme Court asserted that eugenic sterilization was constitutional "for the protection and health of the state". Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a celebrated eugenicist at the time further added"....It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."
After the horrors of WWII the Public's support for openly eugenic policies fell.
Eugenicist societies, to survive changed their names as the article mentions.
For example: The American Eugenics Society changed it's name to "The Society for the Study of Social Biology," in 1972 and receives generous funding from the wealthy.
Looking at Juan Enriquez words and what boards he serves on . Some of them are named after the very "philanthropists" who first provided the seed money for the Eugenicist organizations in the U.S.
Our history, coupled with the way government and society is run today, it's hard to believe that this research and developments will be implemented for the general populations benefit.
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Dagum
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attilatheblond
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Dagum:
Thank you. Solid.
Been figuring for some time that the tech gulf between us and the Hoarder Class will make the gulf between US and, oh, say Somalia, look small in comparison. That tech gulf will lead not to class war, we already lost that, but a divergence that will lead to separate species.
They Hoarders don't need many thinking subordinates. What they need are slugs that can labor but won't aspire. It will happen unless we find a way to make sure all the Hoarders are born with that altruism gene not everybody has.
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attilatheblond
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Dagum
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attilatheblond:
They have us pinned.
If you read some writings of the elites from 1890's to 1950's a period when it was socially acceptable to talk openly about and advocate Eugenics. You will realize the 1% mindset. From their perspective they are being out- bred!
Poor people are reproducing much faster then they are. Less and less available for the poor Inevitably, the poor will get rebellious and take from the 1%. So to combat this threat to their existence, the 1% under the guise of phoney academics and pseudosciences: advocated for polices to achieve these 3 objectives
1. Reduce the population . (starting with those they deemed weakest first. )
2. Dumb- down , distract, infirm, keep ignorant, and break the will of the existing population. Making them nothing more than slugs to labor for them.
3. Find ways to make themselves gods through technology.
Be it genetic engineering robotics or another science. They already believe they are genetically superior. But they still want Super human intelligence and to live forever over a mindless slave class. The only limit to the .01%'s power and wealth is that they have to die.So they would ultimately like to "cure" death. There desire has manifested itself in the movement called "transhumanism." Moving beyond humanity through technology. It's sounds exciting. But you have to realize it's not for you or me. It's for them alone and it's part of their sick agenda to achieve ascendancy.Obviously these things are taboo today to openly advocate and overtly support. 1% and the people employed will never flat out say and tell you this is what they want.
It seems so horrific to us today.
But in early 20th the philosophy of "social Darwinism" also governed the day. The poor were brainwashed into believing they were poor because they were inferior and the rich were rich because they were genetically superior.
1% could openly and freely advocate and speak about these things because they had the everyday people believing these views were correct and worthwhile.
Aside from history in law and public policy,you can see the candor and openness of their aims in the writings of the period.
Aldous Huxley , Author of Brave New World first published in 1932.In his forward to the 1955 Penguin edition Aldous refers to a “foolproof system of eugenics” as an essential part of his plot of Brave New World.
Where did Aldous Huxley get the ideas for his book from? His brother Julian Huxley who was a world famous biologist and Life Fellow of the Eugenics Society from 1925, and its President 1959-62. Julian Huxley's 1957 the manifesto "Transhumanism” is pretty informative on where they would like to be.
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Dagum
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attilatheblond
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Dagum:
It's obvious there is a class that does not consider us human, or they consider themselves more than human. We are not a consideration for them as far as basic human needs. That much is pretty clear. The rest seems likely to me.
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attilatheblond
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Anonmaly
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Oh whatever, and people with common sense have a little discretion over what they put into the gene pool too...
But yeah science fiction will continue to become science fact... I personally think the planet will become uninhabitable long before we've manipulate DNA enough, or merged with machines successfully enough to make it... (not exactly what I want to happen, but...... seems inevitable, of course appreciating nature I'm only into so much merging and manipulation anyway)
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Anonmaly
