The death of the human race, it's bound to happen sooner or later. Stephen Hawking says that if humanity can survive the next 200 years, we'll should be able to survive a further 500. But he doesn't have the highest hopes for those 200. So whether by our own pollution or the genetically engineered virus of a mad man (or a misguided man who knows). Oryx and Crake takes a very interesting look at what brings about our end and what comes after.
In a society, well I don't what to say depraved or loss of morals because morals are subjective and flud. But people seem to be bored with a lot of things in life, a lot of the escapism seems to come from pornography and games. Snowman's friend decides that humanities time is up and that its time to make way for a genetically superior species that was created.
For me this book brought up a lot of poignant questions about our ideas of morality. Do we really deserve life? Does an unborn child have the right to live? My ideas about population and disease are semi-morbid and what a lot of people would consider to be un-humanitarian. But really, life isn't fair and I think that humanity has sort of gotten it into its head that we are not apart of nature and that life should be fair to us. I think it comes from a long time at the top of the food chain with no real threats or dangers apart from clotted arteries or an errant car to the face.
Maybe people need to realize again that life is in fact a struggle, one that we make easier by living and working together but none the less, its a challenge were if you fail there is no do over and no second chance. Hopefully the Crakers in the book will overcome that hurdle that we seem to have gotten tangled up in. Who knows maybe I'll be the Crake of this world and end up killing us all, but maybe I'll be more like Snowman and just watch as we fade away and the new comes rolling in.
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