Eugenics and Dysgenics

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.