title: [Human cloning, as ideological construction of technology].
abstract: The article treats the issue of cloning as a part of the dominant ideology of the so-called technical progress. The author shows that the notion of "technical progress" is an ideological construction full of hidden valuation. The whole class of technicians is simply materially interested in disseminating this ideology. According to the author the so-called technical progress doesn't improve the quality of life as far as psychological satisfaction is concerned. The cult of technology is rooted in the crisis of humanistic values and civilization. It implies avoiding serious existential questions and civilization challenges. Technology itself appears in this statement only as a result of concrete conditions in concrete historical moment, but not as an independent process. Cloning can be only the contemporary answer to the collapse of the art of breeding and educating consecutive generations. It can be only the next step of the fall of western civilization or the so-called revolt of the masses.
authors.affiliation: Ul. Prusa 2/9, 30-109 Karkow, Poland.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Swolkien
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D006801:Humans; D011640:Public Policy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012099:Reproductive Techniques