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January 29, 2005
Chimera
Chimera - a mythical animal from greek mythology with a serpents tail, a lions body and goats head.
Scientists have lately been developing animals with strange traits for use in laboratory study. These traits are familiar. They are human.
They have bred pigs that have human blood flowing in their veins. They have fused the embryonic cells of Rabbits and men and watched them develop for days in a dish before destroying them to harvest the stem cells.
What would human-rabbit hybrids have developed into?
Scientists are also considering developing mice with human brains.
Now it all becomes clear.
Science has been bought out by the two big giants of animation - Disney (Mickey Mouse) and Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny).
I hope I'm wrong, but in 10 years time I expect to be greeted at the gates of Disneyland by a giant, talking mouse called Michael. He will have social security benefits, a passport (for internal travel) and will live in an apartment that holds a leather covered, eight foot tall treadmill and oversized, inverted water bottle.
I wonder if the trans-human mickey mouse will have his life as closely censured as others who attempt to subvert Disney's copyright? Will he be forced to reinact all the great screen moments of his alter-ego? Will Disney insist on script writing his entire life?
Imagine then that some animal/human rights activist group 'released' him into the 'wild' some night. His life would be a shambles. With no-one to scriptwrite for him he would fall foul of some manipulative agent of the darker side of life.
Using his talent for squeezing through tight spaces he would be a shoe-in to become a cat burglar (hah!) and work his way down the ladder until at his nadir - drug addled, broken-boned ,he might have an epiphany and turn away from penny and dime cruelty and theft to embrace showbusiness and easy money once again.
Yes, he would become the president of the United States of Ah-Meric-Ah
Posted by dottie at January 29, 2005 8:45 PM