The most Dangerous Addiction

paperburn1 · Post by **paperburn1** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:34 pm

Has anyone seen the movie GATTACA
That movies has some scary undertones when you think about it.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:46 pm

paperburn1 wrote:Has anyone seen the movie GATTACA
That movies has some scary undertones when you think about it.

Yes, Excellent movie. I bought it.

It's coming. Along with Skynet.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:49 pm

tomclarke wrote:
Diogenes wrote:
tomclarke wrote: For example, diogenes and I will never in a month of Sundays see eye to eye about some of his views. But being dishonest is something I do my best (however good that is) to avoid.

Best wishes, Tom
Which views are those? Reassessment is a constant effort for me. A list would be nice.

I regard myself as quite objective, though many of you will not think so.
I remember commenting on a few. If you continue posting I'll let you know...

Ran across a couple of articles that I think you won't like. Links here if you want to look at them.

http://www.energypulse.net/centers/arti ... hEXM.email

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010081111 ... ciety.html

choff · Post by **choff** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:56 am

paperburn1 wrote:Has anyone seen the movie GATTACA
That movies has some scary undertones when you think about it.

Saw it, now that I've read the book, want to see 'The Hunger Games'.

I'm aware Julian's not Thomas Huxley, but there was a multi generational trend in the families thinking.

Enjoy a good high school debate myself, only back in the day, the loser could expect a stoning after school, though this did provide motivation.

tomclarke · Post by **tomclarke** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:45 am

choff wrote:
paperburn1 wrote:Has anyone seen the movie GATTACA
That movies has some scary undertones when you think about it.
Saw it, now that I've read the book, want to see 'The Hunger Games'.

I'm aware Julian's not Thomas Huxley, but there was a multi generational trend in the families thinking.

Enjoy a good high school debate myself, only back in the day, the loser could expect a stoning after school, though this did provide motivation.

Well, I don't know if you have children: but I think it is very unfair to blame Julian Huxley's views on Thomas.

Aldous Huxley was famously anti-eugenics in his "Brave New World" distopian polemic. He saw the dangers of excessive control - whether of minds or breeding.

Of course, at the time, eugenics was not considered verbotem as it would be to modern sensibilities. Ethnic cleansing was not part of the cultural landscape (I don't mean it had never happened, but no-one was thinking of it in modern terms). Still, it is a sign of Thomas Huxley's moral fibre that, at a time where he might well have espoused eugenics enthusiastically, he did not.