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11music and public commentary. In a vision of the future running parallel toone we could very likely be experiencing ourselves, the album Kid A byRadiohead depicts, in accordance with Sander’s fears, the miserableexistence of the first genetically enhanced human and the world he subsistsin. In exploring Kid A’s feeling of enslavement and isolation, his convictionthat we are “good enough”, and the transformation of society due to theadvancements in technology that made him possible, a clear admonition canbe perceived disclosing the possibility that perhaps human enhancementthrough biotechnology isn’t the means to achieving a utopian humanity it’smade out to be. In fact, in observation of Kid A’s obsession over the humanorigin he was deprived of, it might prove to be exactly the opposite.As the first genetically enhanced human, Kid A bears the weight ofsociety’s expectations and a mortally abnormal existence, resulting in hisoverbearing feelings of slavery and isolation. The opener itself, “EverythingIn It’s Right Place”, acts as a sarcastic quip at the fact that everything istechnically perfect regarding Kid A, yet he feels anything but. As the album’sintroduction, it elucidates exactly what Kid A was expected to be upon hiscreation; something impossibly perfect. Yet as the album unfolds, it becomesincreasingly evident that Kid A doesn’t want to bear the tremendous burdenplaced upon him. On several occasions he refers to himself as a slave, and in“Optimistic”, he goes as far as to depict himself as a “nervous messed upmarionette / Floating around on a prison ship”, perfectly illustrating hisgeneral disposition in life. “Morning Bell” also contains repeated mention ofhis unwanted helotry, while the issues of isolation and social confusion arerepresented in the manic chaos of “The National Anthem” and thedisorienting sense of displacement in “In Limbo”. Throughout the latter and“Idioteque”, he proclaims himself “the first in the Irish sea”, “the first of thechildren”, and claims to be “lost at sea”, all cries of help which speak forthemselves.