Cloneing Video BLOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGGGG:

I have in fact seen this video before. I especially liked the part about pets being cloned. It kinda plays your heart strings, but then again, makes you wierded out. Cloneing could cause such a flux in our world that we could not afford to even try human cloneing. It would form an inferior race, where people would be either in a higher or lower caste. The disgusting thing that I saw was the part about the family, and the sons and daughters looking like the version of the parents when they started dating. Cloned families would cause too much trouble, and wierd situations, to exist. I think cloned organs may be ok, but again, it's building something to kill it, or playing god. I believe in the advancement of science, but to some limit. I'm very torn on this issue, i would like to save people from death and horrible living habits, but the ethics of science and the way we use our scientific abilities should be limited to withold the morality and desency of the human race. It's a battle that will not end soon, or cleanly. It will go on, for longer than I or anyone alive today will live.

Imus 2: "Both CBS and MSNBC had been under pressure from black leaders and women’s groups, then advertisers began abandoning the Imus program and its networks this week, pulling out the financial underpinnings from the show." Why don't they do this to recording artists as well? Sorry, that was last blog. Now onto this one:

“This is about a lot more than Imus. As has been widely pointed out, Imus has been visited by presidents, senators, important authors and journalists from across the political spectrum. He has flourished in a culture that permits a certain level of objectionable expression that hurts and demeans a wide range of people. In taking him off the air, I believe we take an important and necessary step not just in solving a unique problem, but in changing that culture, which extends far beyond the walls of our company.” No Crap.


This article explains itself. He is a washed up shock jock with an annoying voice. Thank god he's off the air. Now real issues need to be delt with. mainstream media sucks.

IMUS 1: This makes a ton of sense. Yes, Don Imus should be lambasted for the comments that he made, but to go that far with it, to make it into headline news again and again is definately dodging the real issues. Yes, biggotry is nothing to take lightly, and We've seen how the biggot has been punished, and it is pretty severe, but for the those african american leaders who come down on Imus, there should be some ridicule, and I never really realized it but this article made a great point. Look at all of the public figured giving the african american culture a bad image. Rappers are a horrible example. I made a rap song once that horribly objectified women (I didn't rap, others did, I just made the beat, but that's beside the point) and played it to people to see what they thought, a minor social experiment so to speak. Several girls I played the song to liked it, thought it was a fun song. It was not at all. One girl said she thought it was disgusting, but she was the last one to hear it so it didn't give me much hope. I am not an african american rapper, but rap is a subculture born from african roots, down to the beats made and the dress and the speech. It is up to the public figures of today to set a good example. Who controls these rappers? Record companies. What do they care about? Money, not morals or image of how disgusting something sounds, they want the money, the profit and more more more. Should we hold the labels accountable. I think so. The Rappers? I think so. The fans who perpetuate the steriotypes and hate filled behavior? I think so.

The social "experient" of John and Linda is very interesting. To see how we as humans, no matter how old and pure we may be, cave into technology and the immediate gratification of technology just blows my mind. It is also interesting to see how they shed their ways, not keeping in what they believe. It is much like what Karl Marx told us, saying that we keep with what the economy leads us to. The upper class in A Brave New World also dictates how others act, showing what they can know and leaving the rest of the classes out, in partial ways. Who do you know that wouldn't conform to the beliefs of the society they live in? Who wants to be a total outcast? Karl Marx pretty much was, and that is how he broke from conformity. You must relate to those you live with or interact with or interaction become a struggle and inevidably will not happen. John and Linda stood no chance, because either they were put on a pedistal for being different, like John in London, or conform to it, like Linda. Helmholtz and Bernard, in the end, see this and are exiled for bringing about change with the riot. They knew they could not live there anymore, for thier ideals in their minds were bigger than the acceptence that they felt through the society. They TRUELY realized that they were living in a wrong society, but it took them seeing and outside perspective to realize it. If we all are thrown into a technilogicly indiverse world, we will be living in the way that these people do. Getting sucked up into one thing is not uncommon. The iPod relation works well here. Almost every high schooler has one, not saying they are not a good product, but for the reason that they are a symbol of acceptence to many, and also an easily relateable topic of discussion. It makes inclussion in society easier, while strengthening the conformity of society. Acceptence is a driving factor in our everyday lives, and technology only makes it that much more complicated with faster and more effcient things that everyone wants because they show status, the upper classes possesions, and in our society, that will make you look important, screw love, screw feelings, screw helping others, it's all about you and yourself and who comes next and who takes over and who makes what and what you look like to the world, which is the central theme in BNW.

Article: This is nuts. I cannot believe someone would do something like that. Isn't that the mystery of child birth? I wouldn't want to be picked out by my parents to be something. That's not a way to live a life, as something someone else completely chose. Yes, you're parents choose to have you but they shouldn't be able to choose what you are. It's sad that anyone would want this. This is just like those babies in the first chapter of Brave New World, with the babies in the tubes and the conveyer belt process. Even Henry Ford would cringe, i hope.

I found this book to be wild. The class systems, the metaphores of Industrial complexes involved with henry ford. Henry Foster. The crazy parts are the parts with the flowers and books for the lower classes. Their sports are also really wierd. I hope this book continues like this because it is really crazy right now.