Under pressure from mainstream academics and writers since World War Two, and largely due to its association with National Socialism, the very concept of eugenics has been derided and defamed for decades[…]
For most people, a mate is someone to have children with, and we all, surely, want children with good genes[…]
It has been understood for thousands of years that humans, like all creatures, need to attend to ‘good breeding’[…]
It is widely believed that Plato drew many aspects of his ideal city-state from the real-life Sparta, which seems to have actually implemented a kind of eugenic system[…]
If there is one lesson from these ancient sources, it is this: A wise society will not allow all children to grow to adulthood. The danger is too great. Eugenics is rational, and even in the pre-industrial age, it was seen as necessary. How much more so today, with the vast dysgenic pressures of modern life?[…]
Things began to change with the Industrial Revolution, circa 1700. New energy sources, advances in medicine, and increased food production initiated a long-term process that resulted in a reduction of childhood death rates[…]
While good news for individual mothers and families, it is an unmitigated disaster for the human race[…]
We also have the rapidly accumulating dysgenic effects of near-universal survival. When nature killed off half of all children, she was doing us a huge favor by removing disadvantageous genes[…]
Is there any evidence today of genetic decline? Lynch (2016) suggested that there is, and the data are even stronger today[…]
We have to face it: There are better people, and there are lesser people—period. We all know this instinctively but are loathe to say it out loud, thanks to an entrenched cult of equality in the West[…]
Third: Eugenics works best in ethnically homogenous societies. Multicultural or multiracial societies have highly conflicting ideas about the higher human qualities
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