The Scion (An Offshoot World)
The DNA twins operate by a process I might call fraternization. In fraternization (as it is commonly understood… with a twist), two people from diverse backgrounds interact (loosely ‘mate’… in effect, they gossip ‘over the fence’). The resulting ‘child’ memetic idea (a combination of ideas which, perhaps, hasn’t been tried before) may signal the creation of something revolutionary (a new genre of music, for example… WE WILL ROCK YOU and the birth of rap… assuming Freddie Mercury wrote the song after fraternizing with an African American boy). Though perhaps it (also) creates a new epidemic disease (AIDS… ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST).
NOTE: The twin (fraternal) DNA also produces a (an evolutionary… or revolutionary) talent as a side-effect.
NOTE: AIDS operates by a similar process (AIDS DNA double helices are created, or translated, from single strand RNA… very unusual). [Am I suggesting here that the technology is a potential cure for AIDS? This universe is an alternate universe to the AIDS universe? Surely, within the world of AIDS, such ideas might arise.]
NOTE: Synthetic insulin was created by this method (an interesting story, the synthetic version isn’t as good but they took the natural insulins off the market thereby forcing people to use the synthetic version [This story gives a glimpse into the ethics of creating synthetic life]). Anyway, this is important because there is a name for the protein derived from such a process (and insulin is an example of this protein). If I want to use the correct terminology, I will have to pay better attention to the research (however, the simple story I began with is now starting to sound like a medical novel).
NOTE: Being utopian (heaven on earth) rather than dystopian, there are indications that certain negative social phenomenon are passing away (or have been done away with) namely war and jail… though perhaps even more telling, money (already mentioned) and… MATING?!?! [The story on one level is about a process that is LIKE human reproduction, genetic replication, but it is proposed as a technological advance to reproduction].
In fact, fraternization has modified [or is a modification of] (religion… religious) communion [a comparison between twins and marriage and a contrast between communion and consummation… only regarding that which is consumed, or transubstantiated as the case might be]. And so it is either a sacrilege, an improvement on creation [similar to how replication is an improvement on reproduction. A re-creation] (a god DNA) , or even the process for bringing about a second coming (JESUS’ DNA).
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Telling a story places the narrator at the center of conscience.
One may have a conscience, it is said. And one may be aware of ones conscience as a thing which operates independently of oneself. That is, one may be self aware and also self conscious. As such, one becomes conscientious (or consciously aware) and, perhaps, selfless.
So: The conscience exists in some relation to the self which is conscious. And it operates in some realm of the awareness. But it functions in a way that goes beyond oneself (and such that it seems, itself, to be conscious). In fact, the conscience is a self-sustaining process. It is the mechanism by which (self) consciousness leads to (self) awareness.
The way it does this is by reflecting those things which are selfish back to oneself (through self reflection) and so by attributing (or projecting) those things which cause one to be self conscious to the act of being conscious (or upon consciousness, itself). This is to say, conscience attributes degrees of self consciousness to the fact that one is conscious of oneself, to the degree that one is conscious of oneself, such that one is (only thereby) conscious.
In effect, the conscience removes self from the equation (self-conscious-awareness) allowing one to be consciously aware…. to be indirectly aware of the conscience… and so to be passively self aware (or aware of oneself as a person of conscience… and as one who is therefore capable of acting in a conscientious manner).
This passive self awareness may also make one self conscious in the sense that one has the feeling that one is being watched. And because of this, one may remove oneself from ones social reality and approach reality as one so removed. Such often become dissociated (they break from reality). But, they may break only to fix themselves. And they may fix themselves by fixating (fiction).
Transfixion is a fixation on death (by degree of unconsciousness). Cross fixation is transfixion upon a savior, or father figure (self reflection as introjection). Crucifixion (the prototype of cross fixation) is where the self finds itself in relation to death or mortality (introjection is thus understood as an internalization of the father… as conscience). And so cross transference is blame for crucifixion (self as father to oneself, or son as sire). Thereby, one may be with scion in a new consciousness, or con-scion).
Scion fixation, then, is the beginning of science fiction. (whether scion is understood as king, son, or graft).
We have found two paths to consciousness! We have become as one walking within consciousness. Perhaps we even create that consciousness as an alternate reality. We have seen how this can be accomplished through fixation. When the narrative involves an alternate time line, this kind of fixation is called fiction. And when that fiction also involves an alternate (social) reality, that form of fiction is science fiction.
Conscience is con-science is con-scion. Fixation is fiction. And scion fixation is science fiction. In science fiction, the alternate reality formed most often centers around a new technology because the scion, or son, is the father extended through time. This is to say, the first in line is the individual as archetype. And so the technique of the scion is science (such that the archetype is also the prototype).
A scientist shouldn’t create an invention which would kill himself. And, perhaps, this is prohibited by conscience. Well, military intelligence doesn’t invent… it steals inventions from ‘the enemy’. Anyway, a writer shouldn’t write so as to create a reality within which the story ‘dies’ (perhaps the reason some stories work and others don’t).
If the story crucifies the characters, then a dystopian society is indicated. And so, dystopian literature requires a hero who is outside of society. Yet in the world of science fiction, the realm should exist unto itself. And, as such, science fiction is utopian literature.
Science fiction is utopian literature. The science fiction writer creates a viable alternate reality. As such the reality of the science fiction writer is prophetic. And so the SciFi writer, himself, plays a part in the salvation of the world (even, perhaps, while creating a new earth… and a new heaven).
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