Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democratic Republic, Existentialism, Fascism
Eugenics is an immoral and pseudoscientific theory that claims it is possible to perfect people and groups through genetics and the scientific laws of inheritance. Eugenicists used an incorrect and prejudiced understanding of the work of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to support the idea of “racial improvement.”
In their quest for a perfect society, eugenicists labeled many people as “unfit,” including ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, the urban poor, and LGBTQ individuals. Discussions of eugenics began in the late 19th century in England and then spread to other countries, including the United States. Most industrialized countries had organizations devoted to promoting eugenics by the end of World War I.
Eugenics: Its Origin and Development (1883 - Present), National Human Genome Research Institute
Occam’s razor, principle stated by the Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1285–1347/49) that pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.” The principle precedes simplicity: of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred. The principle is also expressed as “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Occam's razor
Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most companies grow, they slow down too much because they're more afraid of making mistakes than they are of losing opportunities by moving too slowly. We have a saying: 'Move fast and break things.' The idea is that if you never break anything, you're probably not moving fast enough.
Did Mark Zuckerberg Say, 'Move Fast And Break Things'? Jordan Liles, Snopes (yup)
The callousness of the wrecking ball that is pulverizing USAID, threatening the lives of children in Sudan, and AIDS vaccination protocols that will keep the virus from metastasizing into something worse, but it doesn't matter when you don't think that Sudanese children are humans and that the United States Agency for International Development is the extension of soft power. The agency was created in 1961 under the Kennedy administration to counteract the spread of communism (when the Republican Party cared about that sort of thing). Particularly, Ketamine DOGE and the six Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might have something against the agency aiding in the dismantling of Apartheid. I can see his sensitivity in this area could send him into "full demon mode." Minus one MNT because of racist posts online (I thought that was a qualifier for the job).
I also thought we were afraid of TikTok and the Chinese government stealing our information.We're apparently cool with man-sized (not sure of their genitalia) mutant-shelled reptiles with grandma's social security number. After "saving" it for Gen Alpha (who will be eighteen in 2028), it's suddenly unavailable in at least the Apple App Stores.
Seizing our social security numbers could be valuable for feeding into a social media AI shredder. Think of an online world where you exhaustively have to question reality.
But in full demon mode, why would you care when your beliefs stem from the belief that resources are only due to a select few, and the undeserving "others," the aliens, and the "feebleminded" should be "pruned" out of the human family. That is eugenics.
"Move fast and break things" is a phrase that comes from privilege. It became a Silicon Valley idiom the moments after Zuckerberg uttered the phrase. It means that you're comfortable flying by the seat of your pants, with a minimal or zero business plan, because you have relatives (usually, a deep-pocketed "daddy") who can clean up your screw-ups. Be the "bull in the China shop" - smash things galore. The well-heeled "clean up on aisle five" also connects with traditional media, giving you favorable coverage in print, cable, and Internet media. Or, just own a platform or two. Thus, you're not an emotionally cold sociopath, you're a titan of industry, a genius.
You become famous for cooking up a cockamamie scheme to place a billion people on Mars: a planet with no oxygen, two years travel at current rocket speeds, if you survive the small asteroids or meteors colliding with your spaceship, or the radiation shielding, or the stir-craziness of floating for two years straight. Mars is 38% of Earth's gravity, thus the new Martians could never come back home and stand up on whatever is LEFT of Mother Earth. After a generation of deadly radiation that if they survive it, will change their DNA to something truly alien, so a Martian and an Earthling could not plan a family. Lastly, sandstorms and Mars quakes. This great exodus idea had to be after the ketamine kicked in.
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.” Of two competing theories, the simplest one is preferable.
Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin's reply: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Perhaps, in this case, the simplest explanation is not preferable.
National Park Service, September 17, 1787: A Republic, If You Can Keep It
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