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To: E who wrote (50376)	8/9/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I guess I see a much more "federated" approach to the application of genetic mastery. The model I'd use is not Orwell but Bear. "Eon". There a proposal for incarnation is submitted to a local council and voted upon by the local community. Different communities have different values and are allowed them within the frame of a statewide constitution. Since everyone is on the Net (is the Net in many cases! Default state is incorporeal ...!!) the old trick of rule by an elite that controls information is void. Utopian certainly, but painted in a very human light. I wouldn't mind being in such a society. I suspect I'm posting ideas that I am deriving from a benign and vibrant model pained by Greg Bear - but my netfellows here are familiar with Huxley, Orwell ... Shelley. Seen in that context the perception of monstrosity is foregone. I want to say it (conscious feedback into progeny) isn't necessarily or even "naturally" monstrous. But it will require a much more "connected" society to really work out issues of geneticv governance at the local-thru-global level. Everywhere all at once, the full evolution of representational government by and for the citizens. Dunno if this makes sense.

To: E who wrote (50376)	8/9/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

> Because it will still be Nature red in tooth and claw playing itself out, but on a novel stage. The powerful will use or extinguish the less powerful, as is the way of the world. The weaker children of the powerful will be favored over the fitter children of the less powerful, forever. < This is what I mean by the corruptibility of a fertility-governing agency. And ... I don't know what to do about it either. My current hope is for a sort of Technical Fix - a society of citizens so well-connected in terms of culture and info-access that there will be no classes. No Third World. Then authority, material and moral, will be everybody's business, and everybody will have a say. This would be utterly unworkable now of course. Getting some of our industrial "dirty laundry" off this rock would be a desirable but not necessary part of my halluc - uhm, vision. The ideal would be a materially and politically closed unit called an "arcology". A modern polis effectively, small enough to let everybody "know" everybody else (a few million?) and make an Agora-style government work. Although there would have to be some federal authority to prevent, say, Clavius Arcology from breeding a million soldieroids and going Borg on the rest of us. I like science fiction; does it show? lol