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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
"The cloning of humans is on the list of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry, and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers" - Lewis Thomas
We live in a very plastic, cloned world. Everywhere one looks, it seems to be the same as something else, only milder and cheaper than the one before it. The complaint of a plain-yogurt universe is not a new one (as far as I’m aware, it stretches back to Greco-Roman times and beyond) yet it still remains a complex problem. It seems that on the surface everything is the same, but if you dig a little deeper, nuance and detail arise. But when you push through to the next layer, you realize that there still isn’t any difference and that fundamentally it remains just as cookie-cutter as it had appeared before. This can be applied to anything: music, film, TV, sports, politics, relationships, etc.
Here’s a nutshell example:
“Oh great, another slasher movie. Just what we need clogging a box office.”
“But wait, critics say that there’s a whole new twist, and that the blood is higher quality.”
“Wow, this is different! Wait a minute, isn’t that character in Pulp Fiction?”
“Huh. He reminds me of a guy in Saw III.”
“Dude, this plot is totally ripped off from Halloween.”
“And every movie that came out last year! This is a joke.”
“Yeah, what a waste of ten bucks.”
It’s uncanny how much I hear complaints of this kind. With such a critical attitude yet such a short attention span, intelligent adolescents (this being me haha!) are a tough demographic. The big question surrounds how to solve clone-ism. The fact that hundreds of years haven’t revealed an answer is daunting, and for all my gibbering I don’t have any kind of solid theory. But authenticity is out there, and if we help each other to see it, then I think we can spread it more. After so much history class throughout the 5 years of high school I've experienced, I've come to realize that society hasn’t had any kind of 'Golden Age' for a long, long time.“Oh great, another slasher movie. Just what we need clogging a box office.”
“But wait, critics say that there’s a whole new twist, and that the blood is higher quality.”
“Wow, this is different! Wait a minute, isn’t that character in Pulp Fiction?”
“Huh. He reminds me of a guy in Saw III.”
“Dude, this plot is totally ripped off from Halloween.”
“And every movie that came out last year! This is a joke.”
“Yeah, what a waste of ten bucks.”
Maybe we can kick it into gear.
Labels: cloning, human, plastic, thoughts
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