ROGER DEFENDS THE IVORY TOWER"S MISTAKES
Hi Jonathan,
JONATHAN WRITES:<<<<<<<<<
Eugenics is not a product of traditional society, but a product of the
ivory tower. It took hold in the USA which was supposedly leading the
movement to place intellectual over social values. It was the policy of
intellectuals who intelligently, rationally and dispassionately saw how
humankind could be genetically bettered by the relatively painless means
of sterilisation of the undesirables. It certainly sounded much better
than simply murdering them! We are still grappling to find a good
intellectual answer. Eugenics is BAD - a child can see that. How come
so many professors and physicians didn't?>>>>>>>>>>
Eugenics wasn’t scientifically defined or understood until evolutionary
theory came on the scene. However it was practiced universally under the old
name of kill other men’s babies. This is a common trait among mammals, apes,
and social-level humans including the Greeks. When a dominant male took
another’s woman (through glorious BATTLE!), it was common to execute the
kids. And we all know societies have had their ways to kill the weak, old and
“defective” members. Oh yea, then there is that pillar of intellectual
freedom and democracy - The Nazi Party. And the socialist countries.
The new patterns and values may have changed who died or how we did the
killing or who didn't get to reproduce, but the evil of eugenics was just a
new name for the same old shit.
Jonathan, I agree that Eugenics is bad and that the intellectual level has
made some serious mistakes. At this level, the mistakes can be absolutely
horrifying. Unlike the examples given here though, it won’t take 3 million
years to LEARN from our mistakes. We need a metaphysics of quality - an
intellectual pattern to understand reality - to learn from it and to evolve
dynamically. Intellectual patterns are not going away.Nor do we want them to.
Let us use the MOQ to help direct them.
Roger
homepage - http://www.moq.org
queries - mailto:moq@moq.org
unsubscribe - mailto:majordomo@moq.org with UNSUBSCRIBE MOQ_DISCUSS in
body of email
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:02:40 BST