You Tube | October 24, 2008

Thanks to GatekeeperInvasion, who took the time to verbalize these quotes!

Eugenics Quotes: From lofty ideals to centralized population control and mass death

Heres a collection of eugenics quotes from as far back as 520 B.C. (the ideas are clearly age-old) up through the golden age of Eugencis-proper (from about 1883 through WWII), and up to the present date, where futurists, transhumanists and government policy makers look to an age where race-specific weapons are possible and mass death is conceivable and desirable for some of those in control.

PART ONE

With respect to those who may find the eugenics promise of better, faster, stronger, more human-than-human and the end of disease and handicaps to be appealing, I put forward (as a working thesis, if you will), that the drawbacks and excesses of eugenics as weve already seen it unfold should caution any promotion or endorsement.

Eugenics has been promoted not as a general philosophy of man, but inherently as a system of state control where reproduction must be guided by "wisemen" of one brand or another. This system leads, ultimately, again and again to control by elites who seek god-like powers (oftentimes in those very words) and total social control will almost always guide its directives and oversee its moral judgments making the betterment of the many over the elite few impossible.

PART TWO

This is true not only in the excesses of the Nazi Germany an obvious extreme, but in the would-be ideals of H.G. Wells (a la his 1905 Modern Utopia), the sometimes practical, sometimes overtly controlling eugenical policies in the USA, England and elsewhere in the first third of the 20th century and the same perils of total control threaten us in the might-be ideals of meg lo-maniacal elites of the transhumanist camp most who envision a man transformed, and some who envision the power of a god to kill the many.

Thus, what I oppose is not the hope for a better man, but the repetition of a vicious cycle of elite control and systematic death surely a far cry from the ideals we were asked to hope for in the promises of sciences & the state but connected, undoubtedly, to the controls over the direction of humanity as he moves ever forward towards the future. 

The Eugenics Movement begins in the UK and US, and culminates in the Holocaust: