Oh, Brave New Babies!

Oh, Brave New Babies!

Aldous Huxley’s unintended prophecies in his darkly satirical novel, Brave New World, (1932), had one major flaw: He missed the mark by at least 531 years.

He described his new world as a “nightmare” in Brave New World Reisited twenty-six years later. He evidently knew whereof he spoke since by then he had become an aficionado of Timothy Leary’s favorite brand of euphoria, LSD.

Set in the year A.D. 2540 in England–632 A.F., (After [Henry] Ford)– Huxley’s vision of the future was characterized by a societal-condoned hedonism, unrestricted drug use, loveless sex, and universal “happiness” in a tightly-controlled structure designed and manipulated by an all-powerful yet benevolent government.

It was indeed a nightmare even if it was a drug-induced pleasant nightmare devoid of withdrawal symptoms or hangovers, a genetically-engineered Utopia where life began in test tubes.

Much like millions now pop a Valium when regrets or sadness threaten to overwhelm the psyche, Huxley’s New Worlders popped a soma and drifted off to a blissful neverland.

We still have a few years to go before reaching Huxley’s nightmarish eugenics, but a major step in that direction was recently taken in an American research lab.

A report published in the scientific journal Nature details “a cure for infertility [which] could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own,” a boon for infertile males by coaxing “cells into becoming eggs and sperm.”

Another plus is that the research findings may postpone menopause.

Minuses include the fact that stem cells are used in the procedures which would probably involve even more destruction of embryos, that the practice of aborting unwanted babies would mushroom, and that homosexuals could seek out practioners who could grow their children.

Other bad news is that the test tube breakthrough by Stanford scientists accomplishes that cure by creating ”the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.” . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1300)