10/9/2001
SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RADAR
I love it when people get all weirded out about things like this silly terrorist stuff. It means they forget all about the stuff that bothered them before and leaves the field open for all manner of wonderful things.
Oh, there is the obvious benefit that we don’t have to hear the whining of the Levy family any more. Hopefully by now they have joined their daughter at the bottom of the Potomac! But we don’t hear people worrying about cloning either and oh boy are they in for a surprise.
You see nothing is really changed. Just because there is some unscheduled urban renewal in New York and Operation Revenge of the Pancake People is covering the news with all the wonderful pictures of bombs going off in Babul or Kibul or whatever it’s called in Unknownistan does not mean that the world has come to a halt. On the contrary, the research goes on and we can look forward to the first human clone relatively soon.
And when that happens the floodgates will be opened because the obvious benefits will bury the pitiful moralizing of the opposition deeper than the Marianas Trench! Quivering old Beanie Boy in Rome will have as much chance of stopping it as he would have of stopping birth control! Oh, there might still be the occasional psycho-loon religious convert drooling around the trailer park taking him seriously, but no one else will.
It’s hard to repress a giggle at the thought. In fact I can’t think of a reason to repress it.