So aparently Dubya was read a passage from [which is hilarious - he never read this $hit himself?] Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World , and ‘learned a lesson’ from the book - which was to ban further stem cell research. What? First and foremost - this ninja here really thinks we believe that he took anything away from Brave New World , other than some racy talk of promiscuous women and ’savages’? My ninjas, PLEASE . In a new [PMNP: as of Dec. 2007] piece in Commentary magazine , Jay Lefkowitz — who advised Bush on stem cells — reveals how the President formulated his 2001 policy. While Bush heard from a variety of groups on both sides of the issue, the turning point appeared to come when Lefkowitz read from Aldous Huxley’s fictional novel, Brave New World, and scared Bush: A few days later, I brought into the Oval Office my copy of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s 1932 anti-utopian novel, and as I read passages aloud imagining a future in which humans would be bred in hatcheries, a chill came over the room. “We’re tinkering with the boundaries of life here,” Bush said when I finished. “We’re on the edge of a cliff. And if we take a step off the cliff, there’s no going back. Perhaps we should only take one step at a time.” [FYI to Lefkowitz: anti-utopian novel = dystopian] Seriously though - thanks for using this piece of literature to justify something that has nothing to do with the novel. Stem cells and Brave New World? This research is ...
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So aparently Dubya was read a passage from [which is hilarious - he never read this $hit himself?] Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World , and ‘learned a lesson’ from the book - which was to ban further stem cell research. What? First and foremost - this ninja here really thinks we believe that he took anything away from Brave New World , other than some racy talk of promiscuous women and ’savages’? My ninjas, PLEASE . In a new [PMNP: as of Dec. 2007] piece in Commentary magazine , Jay Lefkowitz — who advised Bush on stem cells — reveals how the President formulated his 2001 policy. While Bush heard from a variety of groups on both sides of the issue, the turning point appeared to come when Lefkowitz read from Aldous Huxley’s fictional novel, Brave New World, and scared Bush: A few days later, I brought into the Oval Office my copy of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s 1932 anti-utopian novel, and as I read passages aloud imagining a future in which humans would be bred in hatcheries, a chill came over the room. “We’re tinkering with the boundaries of life here,” Bush said when I finished. “We’re on the edge of a cliff. And if we take a step off the cliff, there’s no going back. Perhaps we should only take one step at a time.” [FYI to Lefkowitz: anti-utopian novel = dystopian] Seriously though - thanks for using this piece of literature to justify something that has nothing to do with the novel. Stem cells and Brave New World? This research is ...