In modern America, people are always thriving to be better. Whether it be athletic achievements, hospitable acts or intellectual discoveries, the people of the US is trying to be successful than those who came before them. One community that has made extraordinarily progress is the scientific community. Today, scientists are altering genes, growing organs and performing surgery on babies before they are even born. 100 years ago, no one would have even dreamed that this technology would be available. After the last century of advancement, it is only a matter of time before we take the easier, more efficient way of reproduction and begin to create babies in a lab. As biotechnology advances, it is becoming evident that a society like that in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World …show more content…
This is appealing to many because it allows a person to live on after death. If people continuously clone themselves, their genes will not die with them and in a way, they will live on indefinitely. Due to our unwavering fear of death, cloning will soon be a way to escape this reality and could catch on quickly. Since we have the technology and the desire, it will inevitably be implemented at some point, putting us that much closer to the bokanovsky groups of Brave New World. Once cloning becomes popular, we will start to clone people with desirous traits, which will be the beginning of the upper class bokanovsky groups, the alphas. One professor explains that cloning would allow us to “design our descendants” (Guerra 4), which would “open up the larger questions about the overall desirability of the biotech project” (Guerra 4). As Guerra says, once we begin cloning, we will not be able to stop and will eventually reach the point of Brave New World. As biotechnology advances, we are failing to see the possible consequences of altering human nature and are moving quickly towards a society like that of Huxley’s