![]() Now that classes are to be provided for them, we can expect the number of entries to rise significantly at future COM shows. At the 2017 World Show, the broken caps accounted for less than 10% of the Lizards, even though they are the most common type of cap. They rarely win, and breeders are reluctant to enter them. Under the points system, broken capped birds have been at a disadvantage when competing directly against clear caps and non caps. I’m sure many Lizard breeders will feel this change is long overdue. From 2018 each ground colour will have three classes: clear cap, broken cap and non cap the same will apply to stams, making 18 classes in all. The 2017 World Show was the last in which the Lizard classification was limited to just three individual classes: gold, silver and blue and the same for stams. There will be consequences, and we may not like them. Surely that’s what everyone desires? Indeed, but one of the lessons from Huxley’s Brave New World is that we should be wary of what we wish for. ![]() You might wonder what this has to do with the decision by the OMJ to enlarge the classification of the Lizard canary at COM shows (2). They have no control over their destinies. The system demands total obedience for giving people the things they desire they loose their independence and their individuality. Brave New World is a frightening vision of the future, a ‘negative utopia’ where everything has been designed to provide universal pleasure and gratification, but it comes at a price. Shakespeare may have associated his ‘brave new world’ with ‘beauteous mankind’, but Aldous Huxley’s novel of that name (1) presents a very different view of human society. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, How many goodly creatures are there here!
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