Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION General Lee. ““What rubbish. Haven’t they the sense to realise that, but for the formation of the World State and the subsequent exploration of the nearby planets, we’d have had war after war? Can’t they see that, ' but for the formation of the World State, wars would have spread to the other planets through disagreements. over colonization rights and so on? And what if the State policy is to keep pre-Germwar history from the people? It’s given everyone a sense of security, hasn’t it? Surely it’s obvious that things are better now; everyone has a_ reasonable standard of living; everyone has the job for which he’s best suited—wherever pos- sible; everyone is looked after by the State, and for all of this the State simply expects obedience. Certainly there are rules and restrictions. Quite a number of them. But such things have to be there in order to keep the system run- ning smoothly. As for the uiter - create a people with the right qualities; by mating two people in the Drector grade who are psychologically com- patible and whose Genetic Value indices agree, you pro- duce a child which has a high probability line towards a Class A Drecior position: a man capable of administra- tion, reliability, ability to make decisions and take charge of others and so, on. Since we know the necessary ratio of required Drectorz to required IntlectUlz we govern the number of Dryectorz ac- cordingly; if we didn’t we’d have more Drectorz than we needed, and they’d have to three grade classification, well, how else can you hope to fit people in without discord? By selective breeding you 18 be fitted into unsuitable jobs —which would have a detri- mental effect on the smooth running of the system, and just as bad an effect on the individuals concerned. Ex- actly the same applies to IntlectUlz and ManUIz. It’s not just the State that prospers by the present controlled breeding, but, in the long run, the individual as well. By checking heredity we discover whether an individual’s an- cestors had any diseases that might miss a few generations connicloooks.Ccomn)