Faith is an irrational belief, by definition. Woke is a modern faith. All my MBA friends (except a few from low social classes) blindly follow woke ideology in all aspects even in green energy. Eugenics is back, prevalent in transhumanism with the development of freezing eggs and selecting Pre implatation, genetic testing.
Seems to me it’s both/and--Both crowd madness And FIBS. Each better explains different parts on the intelligence spectrum. FIBS better explains the message makers and crowd madness the response throughout their target audience. At least that’s where my humble curiosity leads😏
GeroDoc….. Bravo….. Thought-provoking and spot on! I would love to see this get wider distribution. Have you written opinion pieces, op-ed or letter to the editor of other publications? I read the WSJ, but the readers of The NY Times and Washington Post should read this. - Marcy
“(After Adolf Hitler was defeated in World War II - the ideas of eugenics went out of fashion).”
I think that racism and its partner eugenics never went, but seeing what the end would be if eugenics was taken to its logical conclusion, killed eugenics as people recoiled in stunned horror. Don’t forget as well that eugenics started as mild incentives such as cash payments for better, superior, or just “good” people to marry. Gradually, the incentives changed to increasingly harsher methods including preventing marriages, then sterilization, first of those in mental institutions, followed by convicts, then the poor visiting public health clinics, and finally cases of the police grabbing children, often white, from poor families off the streets for medical “checkups.” Denial of life saving medical care including surgery by doctors of babies born ill leading to death also happened. All of these examples are **American** by the way.
The Germans just expanded it to euthanasia of the institutionalized and the ill. The first use of gas vans was tested as well on the mentally and physically handicapped with the method later used during the Holocaust and then expanded to more… permanent facilities.
So, no, people didn’t completely give up their beliefs, but our grandparents finally understood the saying about the road to hell being paved with they believed were good intentions and got off the road albeit a bit late. To be fair, from the 1880s to 1945, there were plenty of people, of Americans and Europeans, who were fighting against eugenics and warning of possible consequences.
Whatever their beliefs, they did tell my parents’ generation, the Boomers, some of the stories. We have much film of the extermination camps because there was a determination that we didn’t forget. Hell, some of my own grandparents were witnesses.
However, we, their children, have chosen to forget. And if you look at some of the decisions to end any remediation efforts including ending testing, masking, air filtration, and free medical care (in the United States) it can be looked at as stochastical eugenics.
Absolutely spot on. Thank you for this.
Great article 👍
Faith is an irrational belief, by definition. Woke is a modern faith. All my MBA friends (except a few from low social classes) blindly follow woke ideology in all aspects even in green energy. Eugenics is back, prevalent in transhumanism with the development of freezing eggs and selecting Pre implatation, genetic testing.
That was surgical doc.
Seems to me it’s both/and--Both crowd madness And FIBS. Each better explains different parts on the intelligence spectrum. FIBS better explains the message makers and crowd madness the response throughout their target audience. At least that’s where my humble curiosity leads😏
GeroDoc….. Bravo….. Thought-provoking and spot on! I would love to see this get wider distribution. Have you written opinion pieces, op-ed or letter to the editor of other publications? I read the WSJ, but the readers of The NY Times and Washington Post should read this. - Marcy
I struggle with not feeling superior for not falling for the FIBs.
This is incredible. Unbelievably good. Thank you.
Right mate....😬
“(After Adolf Hitler was defeated in World War II - the ideas of eugenics went out of fashion).”
I think that racism and its partner eugenics never went, but seeing what the end would be if eugenics was taken to its logical conclusion, killed eugenics as people recoiled in stunned horror. Don’t forget as well that eugenics started as mild incentives such as cash payments for better, superior, or just “good” people to marry. Gradually, the incentives changed to increasingly harsher methods including preventing marriages, then sterilization, first of those in mental institutions, followed by convicts, then the poor visiting public health clinics, and finally cases of the police grabbing children, often white, from poor families off the streets for medical “checkups.” Denial of life saving medical care including surgery by doctors of babies born ill leading to death also happened. All of these examples are **American** by the way.
The Germans just expanded it to euthanasia of the institutionalized and the ill. The first use of gas vans was tested as well on the mentally and physically handicapped with the method later used during the Holocaust and then expanded to more… permanent facilities.
So, no, people didn’t completely give up their beliefs, but our grandparents finally understood the saying about the road to hell being paved with they believed were good intentions and got off the road albeit a bit late. To be fair, from the 1880s to 1945, there were plenty of people, of Americans and Europeans, who were fighting against eugenics and warning of possible consequences.
Whatever their beliefs, they did tell my parents’ generation, the Boomers, some of the stories. We have much film of the extermination camps because there was a determination that we didn’t forget. Hell, some of my own grandparents were witnesses.
However, we, their children, have chosen to forget. And if you look at some of the decisions to end any remediation efforts including ending testing, masking, air filtration, and free medical care (in the United States) it can be looked at as stochastical eugenics.