From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 12:10:01 MDT
--- Max M <maxmcorp@worldonline.dk> wrote:
> So to make a story that is positive about
> transhumanism, you would
> probably need to turn it around and make the "other
> side" the
> antagonists. The religious fanatic dogmatists, the
> statists and luddites.
That wouldn't seem to be too hard, if you pull from
the right news stories and stir in the standard cliche
plot elements. Say, beauraucrats who would rather let
an epidemic (like SARS) run wild and terrorise their
citizens, than allow a certain brilliant researcher to
spread the genetic fix that grants immunity to it, so
the researcher desparately whips up a virus to spread
the genefix and unleashes it. Perhaps he is arrested,
but just when he is about to be executed for his
"crimes", the local townsfolk - with at least a few
pitchforks and torches for cliche's sake, but no
epidemic, and who know who saved them thanks to the
government's boasting about capturing the person who
released the "dangerous" cure - show up, storm the
prison, and free him. (Extra, if the script is
running a little short: the mob arrives just too late;
he's already dead. But the sidekick/cute mascot/love
interest has an idea, and spirits the body away during
the fighting. Back at the lab, upload to the robot
body she's been tinkering with.) Just an example.
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