From the essay “The Man on the Moon” George J. Anna writes that “The new ideal human, the genetically engineered ‘superior’ human, will almost certainly come to represent ‘the other’. If history is a guide, either the normal humans will view the ‘better’ humans as the other and seek to control or destroy them, or vice versa” (236). From Anna’s viewpoint, his hypothesis might be talking about the government or about people that are smarter than us such as bill gates who created windows for computers; Steve jobs the creator of apple and etc… It seems like those people are taking over the country. But to correlate it with a human history aspect Hitler is a good example. Hitler categorized the Germans as a norm and the “other” with the Jews. Hitler tried to eliminate all the Jews, but he also had an animosity towards the communist and the African Americans. Maybe he was afraid that the Jews or the African Americans were better than him and was scared that they might take control more power than him. Because Hitler didn’t like these certain people, what he did was to eliminate them. In comparison, I feel that now a day the politics are following Hitler’s footstep by taking control of the people which to them are considered the “other”. The government is easy to eliminate us if we don’t pay our taxes by putting us in jail.
I do believe that Anna might be analyzing about the government because, now a day it seems like the politics are taking over us. They are like the “superior humans” because of their power over us; we are like the other to them because of their level. From the movie Gattaca, it showed that the regular humans which are called the “god choice” are depicted as how they don’t have any special talent or knowledge and sees them as a waste of time. And the people that were chosen by choice, they were treated as if everything in the world were possible for them because of their knowledge. They were eating the proper food, living in a very high class spacious place and driving those hybrid cars. This movie can be compared to the society we live in today. If our societies don’t see that people have certain knowledge or went to an Ivy League college, have a top grade point average and don’t have any financial issues; they are considered the norm instead of the “other”.
I do believe that Anna might be analyzing about the government because, now a day it seems like the politics are taking over us. They are like the “superior humans” because of their power over us; we are like the other to them because of their level. From the movie Gattaca, it showed that the regular humans which are called the “god choice” are depicted as how they don’t have any special talent or knowledge and sees them as a waste of time. And the people that were chosen by choice, they were treated as if everything in the world were possible for them because of their knowledge. They were eating the proper food, living in a very high class spacious place and driving those hybrid cars. This movie can be compared to the society we live in today. If our societies don’t see that people have certain knowledge or went to an Ivy League college, have a top grade point average and don’t have any financial issues; they are considered the norm instead of the “other”.
Hey Hannah
ReplyDeleteI believe the same thing about Hitler too, because why other reason would he hate jews and african americans. I agree how you compared our society with Gattaca and how if you dont have this great academic history you wont get the good things in life. Very good blog entry =]
There are many of unexpected and unique ideas throughout your response. Especially the segment in your paper where you discussed Hitler and how you though his persecution of those people was due to his own fear of being subsidiary to those he hates.
ReplyDeleteVery well said. i love how you add the goverment looking at us as the other if we can not pay our taxs and that they are fowlloing hitler. Very good work.
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