The genetic engineered humans are taken to be superior as they are made up of the best genes of the human body. But being a genetic doesn’t mean that you’re the ultimate one and no one can beat you up. The normal people somewhere would try to overcome these perfect humans as to show that they can control them in some point. In reality the real humans are the best humans in this world because all this inventions so far of making a product as equal or superior are made by us.
In the movie Gattaca, we see two brothers Vincent “who is born without the aid of technology” and Anton, “the perfect men designed to be born with the best genes of his parents”. For this reason Vincent is always discouraged to move further to dream something really special; being an astronaut. This discouragement somewhere made his will power stronger to reach his final destination with any cost. When Vincent started to recognized his stronger will power, he thought that he isn’t weaker than Anton. It is the mind of the people which makes us think that we are weaker or stronger than the other competitor. Whatever our mind says us, we believe it as the ultimate truth. Vincent mind even made him thought that he can never beat Anton until the day they went for the swimming challenge where Anton was defeated by Vincent.
In the article “The man on the moon” George J. Annas ‘to conquer death by engineering the immortal humans’. Through the gradual steps of the topics of the article makes a sense of discrimination between humans and to regard the superior product to be the best humans. On the basics of the topic called “Genetic Engineering” exclaimed that now with the help of the advance technology we can do cloning and produce people smarter than us. No matter how exact people you make with the best qualities can never beat the real humans. Technology is so advanced in this world that we somewhere have forgotten that these are all made by the humans. Even the cloning process is invented by the humans, it somewhere resembles that the technical product can’t be compared to be best than the actual humans because they come to this world through our help of inventions and discoveries.
The real humans are the superior of the humanity stage; no other technical invention can beat them up. Because they are provided with certain limit of power where humans are gifted with an unending power of mind which has helped them to come so far in regards of advancement of technology and discoveries. Somewhere in this advance world we are diverted from the truth that the real humans are born with unique characteristics which isn’t presented in any other animals or the product of “others”
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
In class Essay
The truth is always hard for humans to accept. They later find out that leaving the fake world and entering the world of reality is worse. Human lives turn out to be a dystopia in most of the cases. When it comes on judging the two processes of giving up illusions and embracing the truth, I would say that the movie “matrix” is more accurate.
In the movie “matrix” Morpheus shows Neo the world of reality is a dystopia, the machines have generated the world and using humans as their batteries i.e. humans are their slaves. No matter if you’re in Neo’s position or not, when you come to know the truth it gets painful to lead whole life with it.
When you are a baby girl you hear about fairy tales and the most famous one is Cinderella. From there you start to imagine a dream scenario about your future life where your prince charming will be waiting for you in his wisdom. You will be his queen and a happy life ever after. But gradually when you start to grow up and observe the world in different positions, you come out of the fake world with some broken desires. You start to realize that in life no one is made perfect, all you have to do are adjustments throughout your life.
“Curiosity Kills the Cat” this phrase suits Oedipus the King. Oedipus was so curious to find out the killer of Laius (250). When teiresias prophecy started to point Oedipus as the faulter, then he disbelieved it, he said he can’t believe a blind man (330-400). His wife Jocasta prevented him from knowing the truth; she said that prophecy doesn’t come true always. For Laius it didn’t he was killed by a group of foreigners (850-870). But Oedipus didn’t stop here; he called for the servant to appear. The servant finally took off the curtains of fake world and showed him the reality. Oedipus is the one who killed his father; his wife is his mother, and the children he is claiming to be his in reality are his siblings. At last Oedipus lose everything at the end (1470). When I came to know my truth, like Oedipus I even lost every hope and desires of my life. My life even turned down to be a question for myself. In other words, a dystopia that took place.
However truth is, it will come out one day no matter what you do. It will be painful and heart breaking, but you have to accept it and keep moving on with this pain hidden in your heart.
In the movie “matrix” Morpheus shows Neo the world of reality is a dystopia, the machines have generated the world and using humans as their batteries i.e. humans are their slaves. No matter if you’re in Neo’s position or not, when you come to know the truth it gets painful to lead whole life with it.
When you are a baby girl you hear about fairy tales and the most famous one is Cinderella. From there you start to imagine a dream scenario about your future life where your prince charming will be waiting for you in his wisdom. You will be his queen and a happy life ever after. But gradually when you start to grow up and observe the world in different positions, you come out of the fake world with some broken desires. You start to realize that in life no one is made perfect, all you have to do are adjustments throughout your life.
“Curiosity Kills the Cat” this phrase suits Oedipus the King. Oedipus was so curious to find out the killer of Laius (250). When teiresias prophecy started to point Oedipus as the faulter, then he disbelieved it, he said he can’t believe a blind man (330-400). His wife Jocasta prevented him from knowing the truth; she said that prophecy doesn’t come true always. For Laius it didn’t he was killed by a group of foreigners (850-870). But Oedipus didn’t stop here; he called for the servant to appear. The servant finally took off the curtains of fake world and showed him the reality. Oedipus is the one who killed his father; his wife is his mother, and the children he is claiming to be his in reality are his siblings. At last Oedipus lose everything at the end (1470). When I came to know my truth, like Oedipus I even lost every hope and desires of my life. My life even turned down to be a question for myself. In other words, a dystopia that took place.
However truth is, it will come out one day no matter what you do. It will be painful and heart breaking, but you have to accept it and keep moving on with this pain hidden in your heart.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
blog entry 04
Both in the matrix and Oedipus the king symbolized that whenever we come to know the truth it’s painful than the fake world we were used to believed. In the matrix and Oedipus the king, when Neo started to recognized the world of truth it turned to be a dystopia for him as well as Oedipus. The time when the truth wasn’t revealed to Oedipus he was determined to punish the criminal for the act he did, started to curse him(lines 310-320) and disbelieved TEIRESIAS prophecy (lines 440-450). When all the evidences were pointing out to him still he didn’t believed it until the servant came and said him the truth. The truth that he is the one who killed his father Laius ,the parents whom he believed so far weren’t his own (lines 1400-1410),shared his mother as his wife, the kids whom he was loving as his children are his siblings. The whole life he led at last became a question for him.
The same thing took placed in matrix when Neo started to know that human are nothing just a rechargeable machines for the computer programming system. Neo at that time couldn’t believe on his eyes and the facts he knew. Truth is like that, you never know how painful it’s going to be in your later life. In Oedipus the king, JOCASTA (his wife/mother) tried a lot to stop him (Oedipus) from knowing the truth. She said that Laius was destined to be killed and the people who were involved are the foreigners (lines 850-870).She further said that whatever Apollo and oracle says aren’t meant to be truthful all the time.(lines-same)
In both the cases Neo and Oedipus are shown to realize the truth by others. Morpheus showed Neo the world of reality and to fight against it to survive, rather in Oedipus when he know the truth everything is snatched away from him (lines 1800).
Truth is a complex word, and to seek in our lives needs courage. But I think that Neo life is slightly different from Oedipus because when Neo came to know the truth it was helpful for him, rather when Oedipus knew the truth he lost all his dignity he gained throughout his life.
The same thing took placed in matrix when Neo started to know that human are nothing just a rechargeable machines for the computer programming system. Neo at that time couldn’t believe on his eyes and the facts he knew. Truth is like that, you never know how painful it’s going to be in your later life. In Oedipus the king, JOCASTA (his wife/mother) tried a lot to stop him (Oedipus) from knowing the truth. She said that Laius was destined to be killed and the people who were involved are the foreigners (lines 850-870).She further said that whatever Apollo and oracle says aren’t meant to be truthful all the time.(lines-same)
In both the cases Neo and Oedipus are shown to realize the truth by others. Morpheus showed Neo the world of reality and to fight against it to survive, rather in Oedipus when he know the truth everything is snatched away from him (lines 1800).
Truth is a complex word, and to seek in our lives needs courage. But I think that Neo life is slightly different from Oedipus because when Neo came to know the truth it was helpful for him, rather when Oedipus knew the truth he lost all his dignity he gained throughout his life.
Monday, October 3, 2011
BLog Entry 4 " Utopia, Dystopia, and Realities"
When humans start to find the truth in their lives, they actually come out with the idea that they were in the cave where they saw and believed the things they were meant to. Whether it is the allegory of the cave or the matrix in both the situation you need to face the truth and get adjusted with the dystopia. Among the two processes of giving up illusion and embracing truth I would believe that “Allegory of the Cave” is more accurate because majority of the people would find that the outer world of truth is more adjustable than the cave in spite of believing that the machines have generated the world and using humans as slaves. I never have though about the message matrix symbolized until I saw it, like me there are many people who are unaware of it. When it comes to judge my position, I am still exploring the truth around me and looking forward for others.
The Allegory of the Cave is a narrated scenario by Plato where he describes some people being chained in such a way that they can’t see anything expect the wall screen projector. Whatever they see in the projector takes them as the real truth and believes it. When one of them escapes the cave and faces the sun he starts to take the sun as the reality. When he went back to describe the situation to his fellow prisoners they rather took him a shadow and starts to disbelieve.
In the topic of “race-the power of illusions” we find out some points which were hidden from the people behind the curtains of dark which are the actual truth. Race differences wasn’t ever made or follow by ancient people during their time, it is all modern made up rules. Secondly, except the skin we all have the same identical features among each other. Thirdly, in English there is no word called race that exists.
In “Truman show” a guy name Truman who lived his whole life under media control. The things he would do were broadcasted in the TV for audience interaction and popularity. With time Truman started to realize that everything he experienced in life so far were all fake. He was adopted for a TV commercial show by the director who got profited by telecasting all this emotions towards the audiences. The show ended up with Truman finding his real world of truth and leaving the cave of media.
As being a girl I like most of us believe in the fairy tale story of Cinderella, that one day your prince will come and take you to the kingdom and you will have a happy life ever after. It’s hard when you grow up and realize that your prince charming isn’t coming to take you, all you have to go through adjustments.
Above all it can be said that the Allegory of the Cave exists among the people when they find out the truth and meaning of their life.
The Allegory of the Cave is a narrated scenario by Plato where he describes some people being chained in such a way that they can’t see anything expect the wall screen projector. Whatever they see in the projector takes them as the real truth and believes it. When one of them escapes the cave and faces the sun he starts to take the sun as the reality. When he went back to describe the situation to his fellow prisoners they rather took him a shadow and starts to disbelieve.
In the topic of “race-the power of illusions” we find out some points which were hidden from the people behind the curtains of dark which are the actual truth. Race differences wasn’t ever made or follow by ancient people during their time, it is all modern made up rules. Secondly, except the skin we all have the same identical features among each other. Thirdly, in English there is no word called race that exists.
In “Truman show” a guy name Truman who lived his whole life under media control. The things he would do were broadcasted in the TV for audience interaction and popularity. With time Truman started to realize that everything he experienced in life so far were all fake. He was adopted for a TV commercial show by the director who got profited by telecasting all this emotions towards the audiences. The show ended up with Truman finding his real world of truth and leaving the cave of media.
As being a girl I like most of us believe in the fairy tale story of Cinderella, that one day your prince will come and take you to the kingdom and you will have a happy life ever after. It’s hard when you grow up and realize that your prince charming isn’t coming to take you, all you have to go through adjustments.
Above all it can be said that the Allegory of the Cave exists among the people when they find out the truth and meaning of their life.
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