It is axiomatic that the Western world has been in inexorable decline since the circumcision of Pericles. But this decline had not included a diminution in lifespan, until this century. The millennium threatens not a silly computer bug, but a meaningful life duration zeroing in on zero.
Parents mistakenly think they can, after the moment of conception, make their children better.
They fail to acknowledge the Niagra of data proving they can only do the reverse. The child smiles, sits, stands, walks, begins to think. If she's enlightened, he watches Sesame Street and Teletubbies. His introduction to a life of boredom begins. Disorientation is their forte.