The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

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No doubt you were as cheered as me recently to hear the news that a lab had successfully cloned a monkey. Human clones can’t be far behind. Probably all Kardashians. Or maybe Lottery winners. Sure not going to pick genes from losers. It’s a treat to live in a Brave New World. Clones, artificial intelligence, robots, drones, Facebook, cellphones, heated car seats — the future sure looks bright!

What I think is the genie’s out of the jar and he’s not granting three wishes. The guy who cloned the chimps said he can’t imagine cloning humans, too dangerous given the high failure rate. Monkeys okay, they can use them as experiments and save the ‘real’ ones. I’m kind of wondering what happened to the ‘failures’. Did they live, any of them? The humans? Will we keep the botched clones? Will we make a separate category of Homo Sapien? Can we expel them as illegal immigrants? Would you let your daughter marry one? Dr. Frankenstein is working on one now, you know it, I know it, Igor knows it. Just a matter of time before he succeeds, less for him to fail, then we get to make decisions afterwards.

Will we use them as the new scapegoats? Make them use separate bathrooms? Substitute them for crash test dummies? All kinds of great potential. Personally, I figure we’ll opt for bright robots. Cloned people? Passe’. Be like buying eight tracks over I-pods, maybe a nostalgia market, but not real big. And of course, the narcissists. Breed a few more of themselves. Nothing in the constitution yet that says multiple Donald Trumps can’t run for president.

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