{"id":27929,"date":"2025-08-28T03:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27929\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:51:12","slug":"eugenics-is-more-dangerous-with-musk-and-noor-siddiqui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27929\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics Is More Dangerous With Musk and Noor Siddiqui"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend my colleague, John Authers, argued<\/a> that George Orwell\u2019s 1984 (1949) is the most prophetic novel about our era. I would suggest that an earlier book written by another Old Etonian deserves to share the palm: Aldous Huxley\u2019s Brave New World (1932). Brave New World envisions a future in which genetic engineering has become so advanced that human beings are designed as cogs in the great industrial machine that is modernity: rulers (Alphas), middle managers (Betas) semi-skilled workers (Gammas), low-skilled workers (Deltas) and menial workers (Epsilons).<\/p>\n

Everywhere I look these days I am reminded of Huxley\u2019s world. The latest Silicon Valley fashion is for tech investors to fund fertility start-ups such as Orchid Health, which proclaims, \u201cSex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies.\u201d The latest billionaire status symbol is a quiver full of children: Elon Musk has more than a dozen and Peter Thiel, a late starter, reportedly has four. The plot of a new science-fiction series, Alien: Earth<\/a>, features trillionaires, ensconced in rival territories, who compete to produce the best super-humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last weekend my colleague, John Authers, argued that George Orwell\u2019s 1984 (1949) is the most prophetic novel about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[18,13247,22549,458,22550,19,17,22551,12305,22552,133,5792,22553,12160,1525],"class_list":{"0":"post-27929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-elon-reeve-musk","10":"tag-genetic-engineering","11":"tag-genetics","12":"tag-george-wogan-bernard","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-liberal","16":"tag-national-security","17":"tag-peter-andreas-thiel","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-sydney","20":"tag-university-college-london","21":"tag-view","22":"tag-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}