GATTACA

Hey readers, sorry I haven't posted in so long. It's past midnight and I have nothing better to do.
In my biology class [the last one before spring break], we began watching a movie called GATTACA. For people who are stupid or who don't remember what happened in their biology class, the letters T,C,A, and G are the letters in the so-called "DNA language" that it uses for coding and that RNA uses for transcription, yatta yatta yatta.
Anyway, the point is that we were assigned to write a reaction paper to the movie, and I decided to post my thoughts in my blog.
The movie shows a certain insight into the human condition. It shows that no matter how far we have come in the advances of technology, people will still be twisted and corrupt and have their little imperfections. GATTACA is about the genetic modification of human beings. Scientists had found a way to code out any possible physical deformities or health issues [one example used was heart disease]. But, as the movie shows, it is impossible to "code out" the core things that make us human. Greed will always be there, as will ego and arrogance. Apathy, bigotry, you name it, all character flaws are ours. You could argue that this is a good thing, but I prefer to bring my pessimism into it because I myself am a bit of a pessimist.
Humans have always held this idea of the Utopia, a fabled land of wealth and peace.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am afraid that it is impossible to have Utopia and people at the same time. Look at it this way: everything we get involved in we screw up.
Watch:
Agrculture: we overfarmed land and we're eating up the precious rainforest, which is contributing to Mother Earth's ultimate demise.
Interdependence: wars
Peace: war
evolution: we took everything over [being the arrogant, pushy things we are] and ruined it for every other species known to us.

Watch: ask any person to tell you the origins of life. They will tell you the entire story and end it with some extravagant statement like this : And then humans came along.
Oh my goodness!!! FINALLY! HUMANS!
Are we so arrogant to think that we are the best the universe has to offer? Are we so arrogant to think that the universe has stopped developing just becuase of our pitiful existence on one small speck of a planet in the vast sea of the universe? No, we're not.
Evolution did NOT stop with the creation of man. It's happening all around us.
Embrace it. We're not the best. We're not the end-all beat-all. So stop acting like it.