I've always had a hard time with the phrase "Controlling One's Own Destiny", but with new DNA classifications that are emerging to aide parents with their often misclassified children; misclassified mainly because refined appraisal of the genetic code was not available.
So now, removing nurture from nature, incriminating our newest generation to subclasses based on their chromosomes, we are entering a new age that allows people to get together based on a similarity in their genetic code.
How long before social-networking sites do that? Sorry, we're already there!
Would this even be a good match? Don't social interactions work off pheromones? Aren't women attracted to certain men because of the 'scent' - which is related to our immunity system (and perhaps DNA) - in order to pick a mate most opposite of her own immunity system (and related DNA) to propagate the species with a resulting organism whose chances for survival are increased because of the 'fusion' of the complementary DNA configurations.
(Don't even get me started on Perfumes, otherwise known as a great plot conspiracy by the fragrance industry to destroy the accurate perception of reality by covering an otherwise 'offending' odor [to some] with a more 'pleasant' odor [to others] thereby undermining humans natural instinct to select mates based on scent.)
But I digress...
Are we, as a civilization, going to continue classifying each and every category, temporarily assigning labels, that eventually 'stick', regardless of science's inherent 'incompleteness'?
Anyway, on to a braver new world: I hope that no one ever discovers the cool gene, else we'd get into a Star Bellied Sneetches contest like never before, with corporate sponsored DNA-modification companies looting the bread of humanity.
Abstract from: The DNA Age
By AMY HARMON
Published: December 28, 2007
With technology that can now scan each of an individual’s 46 chromosomes for minute aberrations, doctors are providing thousands of children lumped together as “autistic” or “developmentally delayed” with distinct genetic diagnoses. The symptoms, they are finding, can be traced to one of dozens of deletions or duplications of DNA that were previously hard or impossible to detect.
Some mutations are so rare that they are known only by their chromosomal address
many parents are searching out strangers struck by the same genetic lightning bolt
Jennie Dopp, a mother in Utah, was scouring the Internet for families with “7q11.23,” the diagnosis that explained her son’s odd behavior and halting speech.
“I want someone to say ‘I know what you mean,’” Ms. Dopp told her husband, “and really mean it.”
For each of them, a genetic mutation became the foundation for a new form of kinship.
So now, removing nurture from nature, incriminating our newest generation to subclasses based on their chromosomes, we are entering a new age that allows people to get together based on a similarity in their genetic code.
How long before social-networking sites do that? Sorry, we're already there!
Would this even be a good match? Don't social interactions work off pheromones? Aren't women attracted to certain men because of the 'scent' - which is related to our immunity system (and perhaps DNA) - in order to pick a mate most opposite of her own immunity system (and related DNA) to propagate the species with a resulting organism whose chances for survival are increased because of the 'fusion' of the complementary DNA configurations.
(Don't even get me started on Perfumes, otherwise known as a great plot conspiracy by the fragrance industry to destroy the accurate perception of reality by covering an otherwise 'offending' odor [to some] with a more 'pleasant' odor [to others] thereby undermining humans natural instinct to select mates based on scent.)
But I digress...
Are we, as a civilization, going to continue classifying each and every category, temporarily assigning labels, that eventually 'stick', regardless of science's inherent 'incompleteness'?
Anyway, on to a braver new world: I hope that no one ever discovers the cool gene, else we'd get into a Star Bellied Sneetches contest like never before, with corporate sponsored DNA-modification companies looting the bread of humanity.
Abstract from: The DNA Age
By AMY HARMON
Published: December 28, 2007
With technology that can now scan each of an individual’s 46 chromosomes for minute aberrations, doctors are providing thousands of children lumped together as “autistic” or “developmentally delayed” with distinct genetic diagnoses. The symptoms, they are finding, can be traced to one of dozens of deletions or duplications of DNA that were previously hard or impossible to detect.
Some mutations are so rare that they are known only by their chromosomal address
many parents are searching out strangers struck by the same genetic lightning bolt
Jennie Dopp, a mother in Utah, was scouring the Internet for families with “7q11.23,” the diagnosis that explained her son’s odd behavior and halting speech.
“I want someone to say ‘I know what you mean,’” Ms. Dopp told her husband, “and really mean it.”
For each of them, a genetic mutation became the foundation for a new form of kinship.
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