Winter 2006

Will American Culture Heal Itself?

by Camille Paglia

The Future

panies are vying to produce, within three to five years, memory pills that might allow parents to buy an additional 200 points on their kids’ SAT scores.

It may not be long before you run into a young lady so seriously modified that you might ask whether she represents a transcendence comparable to the difference between Neanderthals and today’s humans. She might have a significantly transformed mind, memory, metabolism, and personality. You’d be curious whether this had changed her immortal soul.

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