Dear Martin

Further to our conversation regarding social engineering and in particular the radical possibilities of either surgical castration or even worse still, death camps, my view is that to engineer society in any way at all is deemed to failure.

In my submission, the difficulty lies in the human condition in that whatever the fundamentals of a society, whether it be predominantly fascist or communist, or anything in-between, whatever religion, level of development, royalist, loyalist, republican, or even geographical situation, indeed the list goes on; the human condition is still there. Our inability to work together on a planetary scale right down to a neighbourly scale, the corruptibility of man from the leaders to the drug users, I would suggest is incurable.

Profit and power are such potential evils that to allow those with it to engineer our society in the first place would be catastrophic, for those with either, or both, are not always right, have often lost sight, and are usually corruptible or corrupt.  The Catch 22 being that if there was social engineering then  the need to out do our fellow man is instinctive, natural competition leads to heirechy which in turn leads to positions of power and everything underneath.  Therefore,  any engineered society is susceptible to hierarchy and thus corruption.

Hitler, for instance, would always have failed as a social engineer eventually, as did Napoleon in 'Animal Farm,' there can be no utopia, unless maybe for the individual, who must first pass the pilgrimage that is life and possibly find it in heaven, although I'm sure many come close in life within the right environment, afterall, 'you get out of life what you put into life,' says the old soul.  Perhaps you come round again and again until you reach a certain state of self development, hence the ever increasing population nowadays!  Maybe this is God's attempt at socially engineering the Kingdom of Heaven and earth.

Harmony is balance, balance is the co-existence of rich and poor, good and evil, government and the great unwashed, Islam and infidel, social engineers and their opposition. Things would ofcourse be very boring without a bit of diversity within societies and between them.