Eugenics and Other Evils: G.K. Chesterton: Why is Eugenics WRONG? The Scientifically Organized State
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Newest Mindgasms Quickie on the book called Eugenics and Other Evils: The Scientifically Organized State, by G. K. Chesterton. This is his argument against eugenics in 1922, when it was phenomenally popular and seen as morally good by most people. At the time, it was declared constitutional in the U. S. to sterilize people against their will, and this was also practised in the U.K. Also, 1 out of 4 American high school textbooks taught eugenics as legitimate science. Like almost everyone, I of course think that eugenics is morally reprehensible. But Chesterton’s arguments against it don’t make sense to me. He explains his theory that Anarchism, atheism, Calvinism, Socialism and Scepticism lead to eugenics. I also get into how it was so popular that fighting against Hitler’s Holocaust of the Jews was not a reason that America joined WWII, that some conspiracy theories are true, and that it’s actually hard to logically, rationally, and morally argue against eugenics:
Mindgasms Quickie about how awful and fake Kamala Harris is. Just like Hillary Clinton, she pretends to be all noble and righteous, even though she has made cruel, misinformed, and hypocritical policy decisions. She pretends to be woke by promoting her female blackness, saying that Trump should get banned from Twitter, and advocating for things like racial justice. Yet if you look at her career as a prosecutor, she locked up disproportionately poor black, brown and latino people for smoking weed, and working too much to notice that their kids skipped school. She also apparently refused to act on exonerating evidence for a guy who was on death row, and laughed derisively when asked whether she had smoked weed before. Harris sells herself as a celebrity too by doing things like bragging about her footwear. She is not all bad because supposedly she tried to get billions of dollars for victims of foreclosure after the 2008 financial crisis from the greedy corporations who scammed them out of their homes. However, like Hillary Clinton, she seems to overwhelmingly be a disingenuous sociopath who is only out for herself, and will do anything for success:
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Mindgasms Book Club Chat with Parker and the Woke Centrist about Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, his brilliantly constructed metaphor against the horror and insanity of colonialism, expressed in evocative, resplendent and kaleidoscopic prose. The main character goes looking for Mr Kurtz, who is in charge of an ivory trading post deep in the heart of the jungle during the colonialism of the British Empire. Kurtz has gone insane, and the main character has to find him, while being totally desensitized to the atrocities of slavery that he sees on the way there. We talk about the themes of death and how you have to be emotionally dead to participate in colonialism, the costs of progress in terms of the people sacrificed for ivory, which can also be applied to similar situations today. These include indentured servitude, child labour and slavery required for smart phones to be built, along the unbelievable suffering of animals in the factory farming industry. Also, we compare the noble lie that the main character tells Kurtz’s wife about his last words being her name rather than “The Horror!,” to that told by Batman and Captain Gordon in The Dark Knight, about Batman having killed Harvey Dent instead of him being corrupted by The Joker and accidentally killing himself. The Joker could be seen as colonialism in this metaphor, but he’s much more chaotic and unclear in his purpose than the former. We discuss how Hear of Darkness is similar to Frankenstein in some ways as well, in that you could see Frankenstein’s monster as colonialism. Exploiting people and playing God for your own benefit can create a monster that doesn’t even realize or understand why it’s a monster. We compare censorship to colonialism too, because only the upper class elite ideas are the most acceptable. Also, we talk about Joe Biden, Trump, conspiracy theories, social media, cars, UFC, workouts and nutrition:
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