Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let me Go uses a dystopian fantasy world to illustrate the author's point that our real-world eugenics practice is equally immoral and as degrading as the world it describes. The eugenics-soaked world of Never Let me Go is dystopian, and our real world, with its silent adoption of “soft” eugenics, is equally dystopian. Ishiguro's point is that utopia can never be achieved in either realm if it contains the contagion of eugenics. Depicting the unjust struggles that “pre-destination”-rigged eugenics imposes on its oh-so-human characters, Ishiguro portrays the eugenicist's utopian wet dream as a nightmarish perversion of humanity's social contract. By extinguishing the natural rights of a few for the well-being of the majority, using the flimsy justification of fundamental innate superiority, eugenics comes to violate the legitimacy of government both in the novel and here in the real world. Ishiguro's bureaucrats adopt the role of God, passing laws that establish degrees of humanity and degrees of human worth. American legislators pass laws that establish the degree of humanity of a fetus and the degree of human value through prenatal genetic testing. This science fiction reality in which all men are considered created Equal is the fantasy of eugenics. It is also the cold, clinical world of Never Let Me Go, Nazi Germany, industrial Europe, and even the modern world of today. Never Let Me Go is a world of culturally accepted, selective discrimination, where society is able to view some humans as equal to livestock. Such culturalization of discrimination has frightening social implications, since the expression “the society that burns books will soon burn people” has an analogous inverse truth; devaluation... middle of paper... Miss Lucy's expulsion from Halisham for telling the clones they would be "harvested for your organs" (page 81) rather than "donated". This cold new industrial world was the nightmare of the romantics, the inspiration of Ishuguro, and the reality of the poor; industrialization improved the general well-being of people by enriching first world society at the expense of the third. While luck empowers those who receive requests and opportunities, those who are intrinsically trapped in the grim science of economics are like clones who make their donations with a future as predictable as their untimely death; just as helpless as their vain plea for help “never let me go”. -help-but-think-about-it.htmlThe Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx