Pax Plenitudia --- Penicillin for all

Pax Plenitude , Pax Plentitude , Pax Plenitudo , Pax Plenitudia : the peace of plenty.

What a wonderful thought for troubled people to hold tight to during the darkness of WWII .

And what a wonderfully multi-dimensional metaphor !

Plenty of food, plenty of warm fires and warm clothes, plenty of hugs, plenty of peace.

Plenty of wartime penicillin : plenty of penicillin for all those in the world who would otherwise die without it.

And the plentiful peace that could at long last descent on world at vicious war precisely because of denial of human plenitude.

Nazi Aktion T4 as 'death by meritocracy'

The Great Chain of Being, as educated Man saw it anyway, was God's ordering of classes of being --- from very imperfect to PERFECT.

Nothingness was at the very bottom, and God at the very top : Man was in the high middle area.

But note the perfect and imperfect were born that way : their perfectness was ascribed ,  not something learned and earned/un-earned by being marked in some merit testing.

Great Chain of Being vs Darwin

In the pre-1859 thinking that lay behind the concept of The Great Chain of Being , all species of Life were born on the same day (all had a common birthday) but all were subject to different individual creations (so had different 'parents' , in a metaphorical sense).

 In 1859, Darwin neatly reversed this : now all species of Life had one common parent (some slimy little bacteria) but all the species had wildly different birthdays, as Life branched out over time from that early single bacteria's beginnings.

Cue the scientific 'justification' for Aktion T4 and the Holocaust.

Bacteria will have 7 billion years of life on Earth : homo sapiens lucky to see 7 million

If statistical evidence from the fossil record is anything to go by, the bacteria will live on Earth at least one thousand times longer than us homo sapiens.

Now biology books that highlighted this inconvenient truth by reviewing the entire passage of life on earth from beginning to predicted end at least would not fall into the normal "GREAT CHAIN OF  EUGENIC BEING" trap.