• "I told you so" approach
• we don't need any more wagging the finger
• it shouldn't be staged as missing things, as efficiency
• it should be staged as increasing pleasure of being a living being in the biosphere

• the film fails to reach the audience that could lead to deep transformation
• evangelical Christians' narrative is already that an apocalypse is coming and THAT is the transformative event that will clean up an imperfect earth

"far from delivering Utopia

• what it mostly delivers is a commodification of the human body
• that disproportionately benefits those who already have power and privilege."

• Mary Harrington

• I don't think we can put this back in its box in that again

• I agree with you but to my eye the proper response to this era is
  • not stamping our foot on the accelerator but
  • two-fold resistance and a two or perhaps even just a two-fold note of caution
    • firstly in retaining a humanist anthropology in defiance of all those currently sawing away at the branch we're sitting on and
    • secondly in mounting a vigorous defense of those without power
      • now increasingly at the sharp end of biotech's unacknowledged glass politics