14-08-2011, 05:08 PM
Gentlemen - let's chill please, I'm not sure this argument is going anywhere.
The "perfection of the human species" through Eugenics was a widely held belief amongst "intellectuals" in the first half of the C20th. It was also clearly and demonstrably at the root of much of the international birth control movement, particularly the foundations which promoted sterilization of those they determined to be "unfit".
My own judgement, based on research and some original investigation, is that eugenic beliefs are still widespread in ruling circles. Widespread, but unspoken. The Nazi genocide of Jews and Gypsies made it impossible for those eugenic principles to be openly articulated.
Elite statements about "useless eaters" typically give the game away.
Have certain UN programmes appeared to further eugenic aims? Yes.
However, the UN is multi-faceted, and much of their work is genuinely humanitarian.
The "perfection of the human species" through Eugenics was a widely held belief amongst "intellectuals" in the first half of the C20th. It was also clearly and demonstrably at the root of much of the international birth control movement, particularly the foundations which promoted sterilization of those they determined to be "unfit".
My own judgement, based on research and some original investigation, is that eugenic beliefs are still widespread in ruling circles. Widespread, but unspoken. The Nazi genocide of Jews and Gypsies made it impossible for those eugenic principles to be openly articulated.
Elite statements about "useless eaters" typically give the game away.
Have certain UN programmes appeared to further eugenic aims? Yes.
However, the UN is multi-faceted, and much of their work is genuinely humanitarian.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war