[ WP ] For the last 15 years humans have been able to manipulate our genes . Picking and choosing what we want our children to look like as well as other attributes . As of the last few days it is now becoming apparent across the globe this was not a good idea .

Five thousand six-hundred and seventy-three days. 
 Fifteen years, twenty-seven weeks, five days. 
 
 Since the Genetic Mapping and Research Studies act was passed. 
 Since our own ambition of genetic editions, additions, was realized. 
 Since humanity truly hit its crest, and now, I believe we certainly are headed downhill. My name is Isaac, I am a genetic engineer working for Lifeco, and I played a hand in the de-evolution of modern humanity. 
 
 When we first started this, it was obvious we were doing the good work, helping those with certain genetic inferiority, destroying the predestined diseases that would cripple them later on in life, we were gods men doing the work only gods could ever have aspired to do. We had become gods in the eyes of the world, the one lab that started it all, our faces, the twelve of us, on the cover of every scientific magazine, journal, webcast, holovid, every single screen showed us. We were celebrities beyond anything the world had yet seen, and to think we did n't get into it for the money. Thats all beside the point now, we of course could't hold onto the secrets forever, others learned the processes and soon genome splicing and epigenetic interference were the rage. It was every father's gift to his sweet-sixteen, every anniversary present, and every newborns fate. We controlled fate. 
 
 Now, all of these years later I am left to reflect. My original eleven friends that started this with me, have long since resided from the spotlight, I too. Money is no issue, we together must be worth at-least 500 billion, but what good is it. I would give it all away to alter the course of history, to rewrite what has been done, for now when I look out into the world I ca n't even recognize it. 
 
 The roots where always there, deeply so in the capitalist mentality and society that held a severe strangle hold upon every american citizen, of course it would never relinquish its grip in the face of something so extraordinary as this. Now we have social stratification as never would we have thought possible, we thought it was bad in the early 2000's, we thought that was bad. We had n't seen horror. 
 
 Now with genetic proof of `` superiority'' that those wealthiest enough to afford gene editions can claim, the poorest are left with such a feeling and direct attitude of inferiority, it is sickening. My mind aches, my bones burn with the pain of what has been done, If only it could be righted. 
 
 With the increase in average intelligence and decrease in disease, you would think that statistics would show an increase in personal happiness. This is not so. One day, we will learn to treat each other well, as fellow humans. I fear I will not live to see that day but I know it ca n't get worse than this, I hope. 
 
 I am dying from cancer, I have refused treatment, I have refused all geneditions, I'd rather die than submit to it all. They would never show that on the holo vid displays, though.
