The Ghost of Frankenstein - Things to Come

You’d recreate a military hero? Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman? Or would you choose a leader from the past? Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero – (I can’t remember what they called that German): but stuff like this is happening today - (the things that they can do with DNA!) One rumour is, we’re getting Ethel Merman! You’d vote for Conway Twitty? Not so fast! My feeling is, they’ll hit us with a zero: I think they’re resurrecting Peewee Herman! From mitochondria they can remake a Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas, Michael Caine (the last one, stop the presses, isn’t dead). You’ll never lose another LA Laker! We’re dancing, once again, in purple rain! For Clyde, revived, his object of devotion (that’s Bonnie) doesn’t lie across the ocean – she lives to rob anew! Should your disdain extend to pets, we’ll soon have Mister Ed - why shouldn’t we? Floyd Patterson, Ma Baker, the Brady Bunch - George Harrison - John Wayne! What bothers me is how can we survive it? Reconstitute a monster from a husk? Does nothing have importance any more? They seize our human life and they deprive it of all its worth. They take a mammoth’s tusk, and somehow turn it into Lena Horne. They tell us The Messiah isn’t born, but next thing that you know, they’ve made Dean Rusk! They won't bring back Rabindranath Tagore! What’s next? you ask. They’ve managed to contrive it - we’re stuck for ever more with Elon Musk!