<p>no…what’s the point of life if you can’t complain a little…what else could i do to drive my brother mental? </p>
<p>but it would be nice to eat chocolate w/o worrying about health problems… that would be very nice :)</p>
<p>(apparently, i’m the kind of girl who likes to be slapped in the face by reality)</p>
<p>Only for the hot, whenever sex. The rest of the book makes it seem really messed up.</p>
<p>no i’m definitely serious…i mean look at how miserable people are in this world, wouldn’t it be great if we could live in a world of endless happiness</p>
<p>and can you believe there are actually people working on this</p>
<p>[The</a> Hedonistic Imperative](<a href=“http://www.hedweb.com/]The ”>http://www.hedweb.com/ )</p>
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The Hedonistic Imperative:
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.</p>
<pre><code> The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture - a motivational system based on heritable gradients of bliss. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health. It is predicted that the world’s last unpleasant experience will be a precisely dateable event.
Two hundred years ago, powerful synthetic pain-killers and surgical anesthetics were unknown. The notion that physical pain could be banished from most people's lives would have seemed absurd. Today most of us in the technically advanced nations take its routine absence for granted. The prospect that what we describe as psychological pain, too, could ever be banished is equally counter-intuitive. The feasibility of its abolition turns its deliberate retention into an issue of social policy and ethical choice.
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<p>It seems that every aspect of and theme found in Brave New World has a far more desirable counterpart in Island, Huxley’s actual vision of an ideal society. Why anyone would choose a clear dystopia over that is beyond me (which isn’t to say that I share Huxley’s vision, but whatever)</p>
<p>oh i haven’t read that book, maybe i should</p>