Disclaimer: This is a fictional history that might well be happening in different areas of the world. It is from the point of view of a corporation owner (perhaps related with vaccines?) that intend to profit from future legislation regarding the commercialization of human genetically or epigenetically modification recipes. The author also have some very disturbing eugenic ideas, and is cautioned that no one should follow this ideas, on the contrary, keep ears and eyes open for such ideology and the dangers that it pertains.
Well, as good capitalists, we have a good field for us to profit. There is a huge market just waiting for us on this total transformation of society into a trans humanist era. While homo sapiens gradually change into a new totally artificial species, we can as well enlarge our pockets by making using of this wonderful "pool of genetic material" that is on our grasp. And why worry about concent and ethical concerns? We have been doing it for years with bank and software terms of service, we need only to "enforce" consent. And that will be it. Better them that, we can both manufacture, enforce and disregard consent. All at the same time!
We would just need a cause, well we already have one. And we need a tool. We have plenty of helpful genetic modified bacteria and human agents to do this job for us. And we need... Well, we have everything to start.
It is now just a matter of creating this modifications, very much like a design for a jewel or the source code of a software piece, and test them. They working, we just need to patent. And there is where the money, or better, the "financial incentives" lie.
How do we market it? It is not very complicated, we just need to sell super humans. We have already started to sell this idea. Maybe it is why this Marvel kind of movies started to be everywhere, we didn't do it. But we hell should! Everyone now has imprinted in the back of the brain the idea of "becoming more then a mere human" becoming a hero. Heroes have to take risks (spider venom anyone?) and heroes have to be brave, brave to fight for the country, their health and to be whatever we think they should be.
And I want them to be brave enough to test out little "improvements" and I want them to be willing enough to desire our new way of being a human.
Will there be a price tag? Of course, but I am not greedy, all will be entitled to participate. "Perks" will be given to distinguished individuals that clearly have proved their value to the society. But even the lowly meat blob that linger the side walks will have a chance to be "improved" and leave that terrible state that he is now, clearly against his will, and became a useful member of our society. This irresistible "offer" to be part of this "Human 2.0" revolution will of course bear some risks, but for those who live beyond the bottom line of the society and have a poorer fare then any little ferret taken as a pet, these will be a great opportunity for improvement. From undesired lechers of society those will have a wonderful chance to became useful and deserve the merit of breathing the same air as their better peers. As well as justifying the carbon footprint that those creatures produce.
The same way that a better house, superior schooling and the right to drive a sports car is the merit achieved by distinguished individuals of your time. In the near future, by the heroic effort of ours, they will get honored by the advantages and rewards that nature have not been able to provide to them.
The world is a mere ride for those who will profit of superior (premium) vision, uncanny endurance and a unfathomable wideness of mind. They won't really need to drive those sport cars, they will be the sport cars themselves. They won't need their majestic mansions, they will have the sky as their abode and the earth as their garden. Lower creatures will not vie for space with them. They will be happy, satisfied and content in their own little "freedom cells" enjoying pleasures previously totally unavailable to them, but now at the reach of their minds. For the mere price of contributing to the world "knowledge" aka AI with their minds. Such a cheap entry fee for a world 100 time better then the "terror" of our age. When one has to face stress, car traffic and 8+ hours of work for hardly being able to eat. Soon humanity will be better, the least qualified treated better then humanly and reaping the rewards of a society in its technological peak, and superior minds, able to live in the world better suited for their qualities. Where their freedom is not only "brainial" but also physical too. Finally our woods will be green and our oceans clean. When the right people, the ones that will both be able to do better use of it as well as get use its inspiration to create a even better world, will be the ones that will be allowed entrance.
I am sure that some least qualified minds or some that are still at the dark ages of the XIX and XX century might think that these measures might be a little extreme, that they pertain a too big detachment from our age and that maybe such a large step might be too much of a leap, or even take us to uncharted territory. A little light on the subject and on the present might shed a little aid for understanding to those possibly rustic minds. The world that is inevitably unfolding is not so much different from the world that already exists, Our society, although not close to enough, already shows some concern about the fate of distinguish people. And try, although very thwarted by some small minded or even criminally inclined individuals, to provide enlightened humans with the means for them to excel on their capabilities and be able to properly contribute to the better society that we all want.
That's why, excellent members of our society are due to live in better, larger housing. It is needed for the ultimate development of their minds, bodies and personalities that they live in a place that can also physically reflect their character and possibilities. To suffer them dwelling in the same coves as the meager man is a tragedy for the society and the development of "our" race. It cannot be accepted and that is exactly why we have this natural inclining of the society to "reward" (but is actually a survivor and a "quest for excellence need of evolution) those who are more capable to produce a better output then those who are almost negative in their way of contributing to our society.
Evolution naturally get rid of those, or uses them to their fit. As we are going to do with regards to the betterment of our race through altering the genetic essence of ours, but is perhaps a "glitch" in the creation's code, that makes many of those to be unduly sympathetic to the lower lot, allowing the herd quality to degrade. Leading to catastrophe. It is our task perhaps, to "fix" this anomaly of the creation and support evolution in this most crucial step.
It has nothing to do with being unsympathetic to lower live forms, even those who so much look akin to us. But on the contrary, it is a sympathy toward us, the better of the mankind. The ones who needs not to keep suffering by the unfortunate blunders of the evolution, and can and must "take control of it" towards a real utopia. The one that will most naturally be created when only those who are already ready for such reality are allowed to enter. For those who still hold to the animal brain and seek an explanation for what are not made able to grasp, there is also a simple metaphor for the simpleton to understand. It is as if God allowed anyone to enter heaven, even those who are covered in sin and are obviously "not fit" to enter the realms celestial. It would be a immediate nightmare, and heaven would cease to exist and the "perfect afterlife" (bear in mind that a superior mind cannot even believe in these childish notions) will be one of eternal hell, as long as the lowly and unworthy are given free entrance where they don't actually deserve. This would be a nightmare, worse then that, it would be an eternal nightmare. It is in this exactly nightmare that we are living in, least we do something about it.
Like I said before, society naturally organizes in order to provide better living conditions for those who are better entitled to it. It can be by a "natural" inclining for the lowly to recognize the place of their superiors. Or by even material gains that one can see that unavoidably follow those that nature has given the genetic material to flourish.
What we purpose is nothing exactly new, but just an advancement on the structures that already exist in our society. If one wants to nurture a young brain in order for it to accomplish all that it is capable (within the limits of our time and our current structure of "rewards") one sends or make available for him a place on a top university. And how top universities are? They are not dreadful valleys of death, where a myriad of underdeveloped souls vie for a place in order to try to grasp all that they can with there simple minds from another creature of their own level. Or decrepit hovels where one have to navigate an ocean of yellowing outdated books and magazines. You don't even allow then to partake the combined knowledge of our race and deprive them access to our best journals and publications. Because we know nothing good would come from it. It is like giving eagle feathers to lowly chickens , they would try, but never really grasp the techniques of soaring the skies, but would rather fail and fall, destroying more then their meagre lives. Also endangering hurting property or fledging young flyers. We give the best to the best, big class rooms, majestic building, top notch research labs and access to information resources. We offer quality teachers and suitable teaching conditions to those whose task is to mold the future of the human kind. We offer them entertainment and encourage physical exercise to those whose body and mind equilibrium will be necessary to delve into the real challenges of the future, at the same time we discourage such from the common populace who would then suffer the hope of improvement while at the same bearing the weight of being naturally unable of doing so and also being unable to provide to society the justification for its existence. Creating even bigger problems, like the lice that proliferates on the side streets and under bridges that not content with only leeching the society which they don't contribute to also spoil the conditions for the brilliant human material to be what nature designed them to be.
The same is seen in any company and trade. Director and distinguished individuals are always rewarded with the best lives and also provided with the tools they need to best contribute to the society then are in. They are given good food, invigorating vacations and virtually spared of the trials of living on a month to month basis. They can focus their superior energy and creativity on their efforts to transform the world in a better place, and are crucial elements of the renovation of society, very different then a factory human cog. Society can only spare the minimum for those that live on earth "at cost" barely making enough to justify their breathing. Soon there will be a time for this to became a debt, and it will be our cherish but somber task to take earth side and execute the adjustments necessary. Of course, we need diversity, but one thing is let a lone anthill somewhere far away on the fields and another to let them take over one own garden. It is about help this lower lifeforms fitting the delicate earth balance that they are not capable of understanding. Alas, we live in the times where such purgings will have to take place. I envy our descendents of tomorrow.
The examples are endless. What are the cleanest, quieter neighborhoods? Where does most of the decent people live? How many times did you walk on the park and saw a representative of the lower races reading a book or engaging on intelligent conversation. It is an universal opinion that the lower minded and least qualified specimen seek pleasure on the destruction and the undoing. Their music pollute, their clothes shock and their language is despicable. They mirror their own internal existence and their level in the world. The most criminal though, is not only that, it is that the primitive creature seeks to further spread their inherited pestilence, often smearing their filth on the pristine minds and bodies of the higher cast. This is another reason why then are not to be allowed free movement and at some point should be taken to the tribunal of life. where we shall have to deal with what evolution didn't have yet time to deal itself.
But I digress, the useless are useful to us for the time being and if they had the capability of doing so, they would be very proud of it, excited to be allowed to take part on this great changing of the human race. Also, even if they won't obviously be able to take part in the highest changes of the society. They and their prole might still be benefited by its results. It might bear the semblance of acceptability for a lower life form to be endowed with the benefits of better genetics and they even entitle themselves with an extension of their right to live among their better.
Some softer minds, although brilliant, foster the ludicrous idea that some of those will even carve the place among such distinguished as ourselves. Although this idea is clearly nonsense, it may actually be possible for the feebleminded to to participate at some level of the future world societies if they are doted with technological "implements" that boost their low minds and control their salvage temper so that they may be allowed in the societal world. The same way as a deaf person might be allowed to participate into certain events or provide certain services with the help of a hearing aid. Or like a guiding dog is allowed free entry to virtually anywhere their canine peers would never even dare imagine, "as long they are serving their masters".
I concede that this is so. Although I believe that wiping out evolution "accidents" of history is the most human and charitable way of ultimately dealing with this "situation".
Until this time unfolds, we have to "distribute" our "life development methods" to all the lower classes. This will allow us to have a large experimental database of possible mutation forms, as well as being able to witness their evolution in their own locations. As well as their interaction with each other. Soon we will be relieve of the frustration of not being freely able to "acquire" certain specimens for "better evaluation" but those will soon be possible through the intensive and emergency "care" facilities where we will be able to better monitor them. There is some skepticism about possible issues arising from the tagging system. Since though well researched, it has not been tried in such a large scale before. Also, the cleverness of the subjects cannot be underestimated and although very low in the scale of the human evolution, those can be almost guaranteed to be more diligent on tampering or removing them then the average cattle or dog.
The direst issue for us the the purposeful tampering of these devices and data by competing companies. It is worse then with the crops, and cannot believe that anything is below our competitors. We need to make sure we are able to identify correct all of our proprietary mutation strands and well as close supervise our vessels in order to prevent tampering and contamination of our subjects. This technology is still highly experimental. It is imperial for Logistics and Research departments to be closely supervised...
More articles on the possible interests on the current crisis will follow
- I am not a native English speaker and also it is my first public article. Please be kind and send lots of constructive criticism.