Don Julio Speeches on Anthropological Desalination of Young Minds - Vol. 1 Preface

Many believe that "Life" is arguably the core of the universe, it seems that all has led to this, and as insignificant and weak as it may seem, it is the result of billions and billions of tiny adjustments in the mechanism of being. Probability of there being an environment in which life could commence, evolve and excel is a very minute one, in fact so small that one can almost say it is impossible. Yet gallaxies and stars and planets endured the agony of time, which is almost like an eternity, so that the complex laws governing them become meaningful or in other words through life they found a sense of purpose. This was a remarkable thing, now universe was a Pinctada (Pearl Oyster) that protected within itself the precious gift of life.

However, I believe, that "Life" is not entirely different from "Being", it is simply a biological status of being, and what is truely remarkable is the fact that organic life when ended becomes a carcass, still an organic state of being, which is then recycled to create organic life once more. This is the "Karma" of life; generations after generation of biologic carbon based life forms have come one after another, a dead human is absorbed by bacteria, that die and enrich the soil from which a tree is born, whose fruit another human eats. In this sense I do believe in "Karma", I believe that what constitutes me are my forefathers, and the living things before me, and so on...and if I go back for enough long time, the dust that I am now, was a dust from a blown up star from far far away. So we are part of the same "being" that rocks and planets and stars are. Based on this I argue that universe is alive, that universe is life, the ultimate "Macro-Organism"; it beats, it expands, it moves and changes. To this I must add, that I can not find any purpose for existence either as a biologic life form or as a lonely white dwarf in the sky, other than being itself. In other words, "Being is self explanatory"

Other life forms (including the universe), they take life for what it is, they face it "One day at a time", which even for us, even faced with worst days it would be tolerable and easy to comply with. It is however another side effect of life that makes it complex and hard to apprehend, and that is the "Cumulative Effect of Life". i.e. a day that comes is not independant from days before it, their effect upon us accumulate through time and shape us, form us or wear us out. However in case of us, humans, there is not just the "Burden of the Past" but also there is an "Anticipation of Future", this means that simple existence, is not justifiable for us, as we dread a future to come and with it a sense of purpose.

If finish my speech with a recap in form of a silly awful poem:

"Take life one day at a time, This will be easy,

but beware, life has a cumulative effect,

if you hang on to it, it becomes a burden,

and if this is not heavy enough for you,

there is always the anticipation of tomorrow,

now this will surely wear you down,

so if you want my advice, here it is:

Be and let it be"

Don Julio Speeches on Anthropological Desalination of Young Minds - Vol. 2 Page 19

Nature had found a way to be flex it's muscle against the hardness and bitterness of "being", the stone like quality of universe and stars and galaxies. Thus where odds were good enough, a new concept was added to "being"; the concept of "life". It all started with a tiny carbon based molecule. Then a fool proof strategy was needed to perfect the new concept into something that would define "being", the universe and even the nature itself. Thus "Evolution" was planned.

The tiny molecule started it's journey along the route of evolution and transformed and transformed, adopted and evolved, into microbes, insects, plants, animals and so on...now something gooey and soft...something biologic was dominating the bitter cold face of the planets (planets as who knows how many other planets share this story with us). The evolution seemed to work perfectly, yet the success of the Gooey Beings was limited, so it was decided to add "Neuron Power" or "Central Nervous System" to the picture. Thus the once clueless being became intelligent, intelligent enough to tackle basic obstacles of everyday struggle for survival.

The success of "Intelligence" was so mind boggling that nature made a fundamental mistake, a new plug-in was designed for life, they called it "Consciousness", suddenly life became aware, Humankind was born. At first everything seemed ok, but then civilisation was born, the Man learnt how to exploit the nature.

The Son Began To Rebel Against The Mother Nature.

Humans fighted for dominance, and they gained through the weapon that nature had provided them, what they lacked in physical strength they compensated with Ideas, with thinking. They became innovators, and so fast was the rate of their innovations that nature was left behind, evolution was left behind, Man no longer needed to evolve in order to survive diseases and harsh conditions and so on, it simply bailed himself out by devising short cuts, breakthroughs and escape routes. This was when the mistake of nature became prominent, with evolution halted, the quest for perfection, for perfect being, for the ultimate creation of nature had ended. The plan had failed, the gooey stuff had went so far as becoming a well trimmed, intelligent being and then things had gone mad, the planet, the other members of gooey stuff (e.g. animals) were sacrificed to fulfill the desire of Human to dominate.

This spells the begining of a doom, "he who will not evolve shall perish". This simply translates to the fact that now that we have stopped the natural process of evolution in human kind, we need to follow in that track artificially, we need to improve ourselves, for example most of our organs were designed for a 50-60 life span, but we have extended life expectancy well into 70-80 using science and technology, but the physiology of our bodies was not designed for such a long life, so we become old, frail and more importantly a "Burden", so we need to artificially design new organs for ourselves with better efficacy and longer life span.

So when faced with the question of "Geneticly Engineered Human", I have only one answer:

"Hell Yeah!!!"