Opening Sequence Analysis: The Pentagon's Hibernation Program

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The opening sequence shows how the low-educated reproduce more rapidly than educated couples, the latter making fewer children for fear of the future and a better use of contraceptive techniques. Faced with the risk of widespread brutalization by dysgenic Indeed, the Pentagon is preparing a hibernation program intended to preserve the best elements to the periods of conflict. An experimental phase of one year beginning in 2005 with two guinea pigs: Joe Bauers, an average soldier in the American army has no other ambition than to remain quietly at his librarian, and Rita, a prostitute delivered by her pimp in charge of the program, Collins officer; but the latter largely compromise with criminals, was arrested: the program is stopped, the base

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