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Hard no.
Even the capitalist hubris is done wrong.
They knew how to activate the dwarfism gene. They could have been selling pygmy raptors and rexes as pets to everyone. At the right size they’d be no more dangerous than dogs or cats.
But no; we need a theme park that eats people.
How am I supposed to ride a pigmy T-rex into battle, wielding two m16s, and screaming “America!”, then?
Chariots, string the t-rexes together like sled dogs, though now I think about it raptors might be better suited.
Okay, the chance to become a deranged santa-esque madman with pigmy T-rexes instead of reindeer is too good to pass up. Sign me up for 8!
Ingen went all “move fast, break things” but with genetically engineered apex predators. Pretty much worked out exactly as expected.
It’s funny though, reading those books it seems that Michael Crichton has deep disdain for scientists.
He had a deep distain for the privatization of science.
I mean, the science did go wrong too. They tried making dinosaurs all one gender but used DNA from an animal that can spontaneously switch genders. Sounds like they fucked up to me.
Without capitalism, maybe they wouldn’t have continued when they found out there wasn’t enough DNA for complete dinosaurs.
Or maybe they would have had enough time to think things through, and use safer/more appropriate replacement DNA.
Just spit balling.
Yeah, “good enough to keep making money” is a very capitalist mindset.
Anyone that thinks that dinosaurs are amphibians shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a DNA sequencer.
None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.
The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.
It’s much more clear, especially if you read the book, that JP is about accountability. All throughout the book, as shit’s going sideways and people are dying, everyone’s playing hot potato with accountability. At the end, Grant forces Genero into investigating a wild raptor nest with him, in spite of Genero’s protests that he’s “just the lawyer” because somebody has to take some accountability.
I mean, it’s about both, but… do people really not catch the whole angle about capitalism and greed? Newman straight up gets everyone killed for a pay day, and doesn’t even make it out himself. The only way it could be more obvious is if it had giant flash red text.
Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.
More a reflection of people’s attention spans these days compared to when the movie is released. Read any online discussion about media and it seems like people are on their phones for 40% of the show at minimum.
Hell the original film would probably not do well if released today because it doesn’t have the obvious shoehorned plot points that the new movies have to cut through the morons.
There were plenty of morons in the 80s and 90s. Half the population suffered from severe lead poisoning. The other half were hopped up on neo liberal propaganda.
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If anything Jurassic park is basically a lesson in properly vetting your staff.
Everything that happened happened because Dennis was the only IT guy and basically could do whatever he wanted with zero oversight. It’s not like the dinosaurs were going to break out on their own, even the raptors only got out because the fences were turned off.
It still comes down to Hammond not paying Nedry enough although he claimed he “spared no expenses”.
Spared no expense on HR, contact lawyers, and icecream.
He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.
IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like “you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw”, which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren’t getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.
I have said for decades that we need to bring back some apex predators and let them roam free.
Tigers, hippos, fucking Komodo dragons.
Let them loose and let them breed.
Not only helping nature along, but it would do humanity a ton of good to be hunted daily.
It would cull the dumb, slow, fat population, bringing our numbers down, and teaching everyone some god damn humility.
I’m dead serious. I’ve been planning to relocate and release Komodo dragons into the Florida swamps. They’d fucking thrive.
Anybody wanna help, DM me.
disease, infectious disease would be more effective,
Ah yes, let’s just let our old and disabled die, they deserve it for being the way they are! This train of thought has always lead to morally impeccable results!
Please re-think what you’re saying, because it’s disgusting on so many levels that I can’t even begin to describe all the ways it’s horribly wrong.
While I’m fond of the anti-capitalist reading (and Spielberg’s environmentalist one), with the context of the rest of Chrichton’s books (particularly state of fear and next), I think the intent was moralism against genetic research
Yeah, that’s what the line about could vs. should was about.
Science only views the world through the Cartesian division of subjects and objects and makes the world a calculable resource of objects that capitalism can exploit. The two work together. If we still saw the mystery and divine in nature, maybe we wouldn’t disrespect it so much.
You’re getting downvoted but indigenous people in, say, Canada and Australia tend to be the staunchest pro-environment advocates so there’s merit to this idea.
Holy shit! Not only is that real, I now know what was in my garden last month!
There are different types of wonder and beauty. Mostly for scientists though, they find things interesting and that’s fine. But, it’s different than the way an artist would portray it, or a poet.
The bio science was averaging success. Not their fault that the IT dept fumbled the ball.
No no no, it’s all about paying your IT people well and being nice to them. If John had been nice to Needry, then Needry wouldn’t have needed to betray him. Pay your IT people, be nice to them and everything would have been fine.
Worst I can do if my boss pisses me off it’s change his password on a Friday, and then go home.
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Not really. The dinos were half-baked imitations, not exact replicas. And they evolved in ways the scientists didn’t anticipate, because their reach exceeded their grasp.
There’s definitely an anti-capitalist message, but don’t dismiss the warning about prematurely greenlighting high-stakes scientific initiatives. That’s relevant to the modern world, no matter what our economic model is.
LLMs come to mind. There’s a section of the AI-skeptic folks that say the only problem with AI is the profit motive. I’m not so sure. People will use tech to do all kinds of horrible shit even if they don’t stand to materially benefit. Just look at 4chan.
