AH Challenge: 1984/Brave New World country in modern day

So basically a country like North Korea that embraces totalitarian and technology, is this possible?

Talking full on here:

1. Be born
2. Be taken to Government Parenting Facility with all other Children
3. Be constantly indoctrinated into loving country in Government Education Facility and eventually tests are performed (probably based on unethical experiments) to determine what you'd excel at (including asking you what you like doing or indoctrinating you into liking it))
4. Spend time learning degree/how to do future job in Government Specialization Facility
5. Be Being 000129132 working at designing better, higher quality indoctrination courses
6. Die/retire be recycled.

Perhaps a little bit of:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri#Human_Hive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hrYz_2uAk

http://sidmeiersalphacentauri.wikia.com/wiki/Human_Hive
 
Unlikely, nigh impossible.


The main trouble is human nature, parents (particularly mothers) cannot bare to be separated from their children. Since there isn't really any 'middle ground; you can develop where the state can get involved here, then you have to pretty much directly jump to seizing the new born by force.

Since this will alienate the vast majority of the populace against your regime straight away. Your regime isn't going to last very long.

Go straight to 'crimes against humanity trial' do not pass go, do not collect 'your eugenics certificate'.



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EDIT: If your premise revolves more around genetic sampling/designer babies along the lines of the dystopian film Gattaca then you may have a more promising point for discussion.
 
Unlikely, nigh impossible.

The main trouble is human nature, parents (particularly mothers) cannot bare to be separated from their children. Since there isn't really any 'middle ground; you can develop where the state can get involved here, then you have to pretty much directly jump to seizing the new born by force.

Cultural or social? Can it be indoctrinated against?

Also it doesn't have to be that, it's just a lot easier to do that.

Since this will alienate the vast majority of the populace against your regime straight away. Your regime isn't going to last very long.

Begin it in the adoption centres and the unwanted babies, there you've got like 5% who were brought up by the government. If anyone starts complaining, well you'll hear it because every single thing said by any citizen is recorded and uploaded.

Also, parents are fine with sending their kid to boarding school and school, so that desire is clearly not that strong.

EDIT: If your premise revolves more around genetic sampling/designer babies along the lines of the dystopian film Gattaca then you may have a more promising point for discussion.

There's no reason why it can't involve both, it would likely involve both too, but you can't just jump from sustaining population by natural birth to sustaining via artificial wombs.
 
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