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Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances.
Their arguments cluster around three key worries: that the pursuit of perfection by biomedical means is vain, selfish, and unrewarding [1,2,3,6,7], that improving ourselves is unfair [1,3,4], and that enhancement or improvement violates human nature [2,4,5,7,8,9] and may actually destroy it [2,5,7,9].
John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.
Echoing through Brokaw's book, and to a lesser extent through Spielberg's movie, is an implicit comparison to the softer and more selfish generation that followed.
Here, in these remarkable words, is the seed of modern radical politics, the promise that brute human nature and selfish instinct can be overcome, given the proper political system.