Eva Durant:
>>So who decides who takes the role of the gamekeeper and
>>the role of animals?
Jay Hanson:
>Policy-making would be done by an elite group of scientists and religious
>and cultural leaders. Administration would be done by computers.
>
>Obviously, working all this stuff out would take an enormous amount of
>effort. I haven't taken the time because I haven't seen any willingness to
>junk the present system.
There have been serious attempts to work it out. I recall many years ago
seeing a book written by scientists of the day working for the Nazis. In it
there were pictures of how you could tell the difference between Aryans and
Jews by the way they sat on the toilet. Just a little later, their
colleague engineers, inspired, aided and abbeted by their cultural and
religious leaders, designed gas chambers and developed Cyclone B. I also
recall seeing publications on eugenics, honest proposals to improve the
human species by selective sterilization and breeding, some of which were
actually carried out by computers - human ones because we were still some
distance from the microchip. Some of the things that the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission is finding out also suggest that
cultural and religious leaders and scientists have given considerable
thought to how the human race might be improved.
Jay, I take your postings very seriously because they contain important
messages, but, sorry, I can't buy this one. While you appear to be a cynic,
you are really the highest of idealists. You expect far too much of us poor
human animals, and want to save us from ourselves. And for what? Simply to
be administered, bred and culled on a scientifically managed game farm?
Thank you, but I'm going to go have a beer with Joe Sixpack.
Ed Weick
