The scientists of era of Modernity (1870s-1960s) believed that Darwin's evolution would be best served by Man giving Natural Selection a leg up - by Mankind draining the gene pool for humans and non-humans alike.
Cue Auschwitz and Aktion T4 and cue today's ever more rapid extinction of all species other than our own.
Those scientists were dead wrong - it was just bad science.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Pre-1945 modernity sought to reduce the human gene pool...
.... while post-1945 postmodernity seeks to preserve the human gene pool.
The elderly Congressmen of 1946 (who had been teenagers in the 1880s) who thought that there could only be one "atomic secret" and that America had it - that was quintessentially Modern.
Similarly the fact that middle aged voters today (who were teenagers in the 1980s) show a wide tolerance for racial, sexual, physical and cultural variety is quintessentially Postmodern.
The elderly Congressmen of 1946 (who had been teenagers in the 1880s) who thought that there could only be one "atomic secret" and that America had it - that was quintessentially Modern.
Similarly the fact that middle aged voters today (who were teenagers in the 1980s) show a wide tolerance for racial, sexual, physical and cultural variety is quintessentially Postmodern.
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