matilda

In five years time I see myself finishing Uni. During those five years I hope to have achieved a number of things, such as completing a Journalism major with arts minors (preferably history or Asian Studies). I hope to have studied over in Italy for a few months, made some great friends, had lots of fun and learnt a lot. I would like to have either attended Monash (if I do the above I would have attended this University at both Berwick and Clayton) or RMIT (where I likely could not have done History). Next year I'm aiming to be over 92.15 in my enter score - which means lots of studying for me - as RMIT (my ideal Uni thus far) requires that kind of Enter sore.

In ten years time, I hope to have finished Uni, made lots of friends, traveled heaps and gained the Journalism job of my dreams. Also during this time I would have improved my photography and started on my first book.

If our society chose to perfect the genetic future of our children, what would happen? What might the advantages be? The disadvantages?

I think we would cease to be human  and become something else entirely. We might no longer die from preventable diseases, be able ot increase the longitivity of life and to be stronger and healthier, but everything good comes with a price. And the price isn't always just money. The families who could not afford it would still die, would be inperfect, just as what occured in Gattaca. There would be a new form of descrimination. There would not be prejudice in the form of skin colour, gender, sexuality, but instead about our genetic make-up.

It would not make our lives socially better. It would make us, in a way, monsters. Monsters created by science, essentially not a creation of love, but of what would be best, what would eradicate diseases. We would create a new social heirachy. Descriminate against families and people who could not afford to better their child, to prepare them for a world that would hate them for being different, for being unable to afford what would make them the same as everyone else.

We would lose what made us human. The strive to achieve what is great. To be better. To grow, to learn, to love. Everything would be about genetics. Not about the person.

A perfect Society?

This is a little late I suppose. I've already posted an entry, but that never really detailed anything about myself.

My name is Madi, I'm 16 and in year 11 at highschool. This isn't the first time I've done a blog, in year 9 we were required to do something similar, but also outside school I occasionally write in my LiveJournal (and I also keep a 'journal' on deviantart as well, which is the one where I get the most audience).

I love reading and writing, and for university I'll be enrolling into a Journalism course (I would love to do a history course as well but the Uni I want to go to doesn't have any, my second choice does though). I'm a photographer in my freetime and I hope to be able to include that in my Journalism when I become good enough. I also am stiving to become an author, and every chance I get I'm improving my skill by writing and reading. If I look back at my older writings I can see where I've improved, but I still have a lot of room to learn.

Music is an important part of my life. I may not learn an instrument at present, (I have begun to learn instruments like the Violin and Guitar in the past) but it's still a major influence in my life. My favourite bands/singers are IAMX, 30 Seconds to Mars, Armor for Sleep, Metro Station and... Katy Perry >>;;

I don't really have much else that I feel like disclosing, but there you go. A little bit information about me.

This is a blog. By Madi.

In order to understand perfection we need to maintain imperfection. We cannot all be perfect becuase we would all be the same - therefore no longer unique. Purpose would fade and we would loose interest in striving to become better people. Instead of working towards improvement we would just buy it, becoming a mere shadow of what life is worth and about.