Eugenics and Dysgenics
by
R.E. Prindle
For some
reason evolution keeps popping up as a problem rather than a solution. All of the evidence points to an upward evolution
in complexity not only of humans but all mammals. There must be another problem and that
problem is that not only are all species of Mammalia not equal but neither are
all human species. If evolution exists,
as it does, then humans have evolved at different stages also. That means some humans are being left behind
and that means that not all humans have equal abilities and that means a social
problem in that some humans are inevitably left behind.
In the past
this was not problem because on the one hand there was very little knowledge
and lot of ‘wisdom’ and the various species, or sub-species, if you prefer,
were segregated by geography, they were allowed therefore to develop their
racial identity with minimal interference- Asians lived in Asia, sub-Saharan
Africans lived South of the Sahara, Semites lived in Arabia and the Middle east
and Aryan races in their undiluted form lived in Europe, otherwise where they invaded
they melded into Asian populations.
But then, in
the fifteenth century something remarkable began to happen. The Aryan mind of the various races began to
open. In other words, the Semitic yoke
of ignorance as perpetuated by the Roman Catholic religion began to be cast
off. Freed from that repression the
naturally scientific Aryan mind was released from that repression; the naturally
scientific Aryan mind was freed to function once again. Then began the period of the Enlightenment
that resulted in the fulfillment of the Aryan mind in that most glorious of centuries,
the Nineteenth. The Aryan mind flowered
spectacularly changing the very way in which the world was perceived while
leaving all other known species an age or two behind.
Central to
that flowering was the realization that Aryans are more highly evolved than the
other human species or sub-species, if you wish.
Initially
overwhelmed by this efflorescence the other human species could offer little
resistance; the Aryan flood rolled over the entire world. The Aryans, the Europeans conquered the whole
planet and ruled it.
The Aryan
supremacy was weakened fatally by internal divisions that resulted in two world
wars thus destroying confidence in their emotional maturity that hadn’t kept up
with their intelligence. While evolution
had progressed quickly, Aryan’s great powers of intellect, evolution had no
effect on altering their emotional nature and in that sense Aryans remained on
the same emotional level as the other species, sub-species or races depending
on how the reader might want to look at it.
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To return to
the origins of evolution. Charles Darwin
was the man of destiny chosen to present the idea of Evolution to the world in
his 1959 work, The Origin of Species; his vision of evolutionary speculation,
not excluding that of his father Erasmus Darwin who explored the idea as a
Romantic writer in long poems. The
Frenchmen Buffon and Lamarck were significant contributors to the notion of evoluton. Lyell’s work in geology however destroyed the
Biblical basis of the six thousand year old planet created by a god in six days
opening the way for Darwin’s ages old theory of evolution.
Since we’re
talking about the opening, in the small sense of the Aryan mind, an opening
that would change our conception of reality.
It might be worthwhile to give some indication of what that meant, what
the Aryans could and did do that the other species couldn’t and didn’t do. And that was to lift the veil of Isis and
show how the world was made beneath surface appearances. For really, Malthus, a Jew, was right given the
knowledge of that day as to the limitation of resources. Without succeeding Aryan inventions of all
kinds Mankind was actually up against the wall on a dead end street. It was just that Maltus couldn’t clearly see
the future but he was not wrong considering conditions in his present. Freud, Sigmund Freud, the psychologist, said
that there were three great discoveries that changed Man’s conception of self,
the first was the understanding of the Solar System and Earth’s place in it,
and hence, Man’s; the second was the concept of evolution that humbled man from
his exalted place in the hierarchy of animals and third, Freud was ever humble,
his discovery of psycho-analysis. Freud
of course discovered nothing merely synthesizing what European scientists had
discovered, much in the manner of Darwin.
According to
Freud the net effect of these three discoveries was to diminish Man to relative
inconsequence, a tiny speck on a miniscule planet in an insignificant galaxy on
the far edge of the universe. As an
aside, I disagree with this view that has paralyzed the mind of most
people. The universe is so immense that
we have no idea where we’re located in it.
A seer named Edgar Allen Poe who was perhaps one of mankind’s great
geniuses and perhaps the brightest of all Americans in his book Eureka speculated,
as I believe correctly, that the universe was like the Earth, like the Solar System,
itself a great ball, or lozenge, circulating around a center.
This must be
true as all else is wheels within wheels so the universe must be the biggest
wheel of all. Perhaps as one sci-fi
writer speculated the universe itself being little more than a cell of some
larger even more immense organism. So far
beyond Man’s ability to define as to be beyond reason. And why not?
So, as I
perceive it, our Solar System and Earth’s location in it with all the attributes
that make the planet functional is unique in this entire universe. And the existence of life as we know it and
especially human kind and more especially myself and yourself are miracles
beyond explications. Rather than feeling
small and insignificant one should feel like the miracle we are and glory and
revel in it for the short duration of our existence. There’s always a catch-22 isn’t there? Take heart! Live, love, laugh and be
happy. Once you’re gone, you’re gone, it’s
over, so seize it while you can.
So, the imaginative
life Man was living of Gods, Fairies and any number of wonderful creatures gave
way before the advance of science and the Aryan mind. Marvelous imaginative structures and beings
went up in smoke. Telescopes and microscopes,
the advance of chemistry and physics, the actual cornerstones of what is
considered science; the discovery of the magnetic field, that is electricity
and radio waves and how to harness them, the breakdown of air into the various
gases, even their isolation as in oxygen; it was all taking place in the
Romantic Age as the fantasy world of the past clashed with the reality of life
as discovered in the test tube.
For those
who read, and since you’re reading this,you, there is a wonderful book by
Richard Holmes called The Age of Wonder.
Holmes captures the moment of the separation of mythopoeic thinking and science,
that moment, perfectly. His sub-title:
How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science; really
enjoyable read.
And there
were great synthesizers: Gibbon in
History, Auguste Comte the Positivist who organized the new knowledge into a
coherent manageable whole. Herbert
Spencer, the brilliant continuator of Comte who captured contradictions so aptly. In his Principles of Ethics he wrote:
How absolute throughout Europe is the contradiction between the codes of conduct adjusted respectively to the needs of internal amity and external enmity, we see in the broad fact that along with several hundred thousand priests who are supposed to preach forgiveness, there exist immensely larger armies than any on record.
Yes, Man
evolves at different paces at different levels.
No matter. It seemed to be the
age of progress and not Man but Europeans, Aryans, progressively developed all
fields for the others to follow if they could.
Psychology, Sigmund Freud’s province, developed tools to measure
intelligence and thus inequality, an unforgiving unequality, an absolute
inequality one that couldn’t be transgressed became the fact. Science demanded an intelligence that could
only be enjoyed by those to whom nature had given it and those were the chosen
few. The many who were excluded found a
method to negate the advantage of the few, they turned eugenics into
dysgenics. The nineteenth century had
been one of eugenics; the twentieth century would be one of dysgenics. How to find a place in science for the
unqualified. Fool Mother Nature.
Continued in
Part II.
