Fundies should be thankful, for we are Merciful.

[elfs]

I have this dream, you know. I understand that one of the premises of Ayn Rand's famous book, Atlas Shrugged, is that the "productive" people of the world all take themselves away to some desert colony and let the rest of the world, bereft of leadership and vision, waste away.

I dream of a Darwin Shrugged. That someday, all of the gifts of evolutionary biology be withheld from those who claim not to believe in its efficacy. That we deny them all access to antiobiotics, vaccines, cancer angiogenetic antagonist drugs, anti-obesity medicines, modafinil. That we withdraw from their markets (and their markets only) inexpensive fibers and bright colorful dyes.

That we make food as dear to them as it ever was in the depth of a Lamarkian winter.

I think I subject myself too much to the utter stupidity of the anti- evolutionists. The "We're fighting Darwinism" has now fallen over into smug "We've beaten Darwinism" in the fundie churches, who congregants still vaccinate their kids and use antibiotics, all produced by scientists who scratch their heads and say, "Uh, what... ?"

Sigh I guess I'm just too bloody minded today. Damn allergies kept me up all night, I got maybe four hours of sleep. My car's gonna cost me a kilobuck, probably, to keep running for another two or three years, and all that stressy crud.

Comments

[eddvick.livejournal.com]

That's make a kickass novel if there were some justifiable handwaving in the setup.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Actually... It would make fabulous background to a novel about a divided United States. In those states where high schools taught Intelligent Design, corporations pulled up stakes and moved out. Later, when those states' economies start to tank, the corporations move back, setting up enclaves to defend against the masses who know nothing and produce little.

[eddvick.livejournal.com]

Why am I reminded of the comic book "Captain Confederacy"?

Sadly, too many corporations are led by 'true believers' or make large profits off of them. Dominos and KMart come to mind.

And it's dissatisfying (to me) to break them down on a state-by-state level, judging an entire state's population by whether 51% of its voters are asshats & morons. Web 2.0 is great at building community; what you do is get computers to those who don't have them, get them connected and have them join/build communities, encourage them to make it nonvirtual by congregating in enclaves of likeminded individuals. Some of them would take themselves off immunizations voluntarily; there's a start.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Already happening, but at a national level.

I just got back from a seminar presented by Professional Engineers Ontario (in Canada) on medical applications of engineering. One presentation was on making artificial hip or knee joints with porous ceramic soaked in stem cells, instead of the current titanium and polyethylene. Within a year or two of implantation, it's been replaced by natural bone and is self-repairing like a natural joint. Currently artificial joints wear out and have to be replaced every 10-15 years.

One comment that the presenter made was that research in Canada has greatly benefited from all the scientists migrating north so they could include stem cells in their research without losing funding.