http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
Eugenics, the social movement claiming to improve the genetic features of human populations through selective breeding and sterilization,[1] based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish between superior and inferior elements of society,[2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States prior to its involvement in World War II.[3]
Eugenics was practised in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany[4] and actually, U.S. programs provided much of the inspiration for the latter.[5][6][7] Stefan Kühl has documented the consensus between Nazi race policies and those of eugenicists in other countries, including the United States, and points out that eugenicists understood Nazi policies and measures as the realization of their goals and demands.[5]
A hallmark of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th century, now generally associated with racist and nativist elements (as the movement was to some extent a reaction to a change in emigration from Europe) rather than scientific genetics, eugenics was considered a method of preserving and improving the dominant groups in the population.
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I think there has alway been a terror of the consequences of assigning different values for different types of human beings. Looking back at the ancients, there were slave classes under ruling classes forever. Scribes recorded not just the usual economic differences, but those seemingly with evolution itself.
I read something that shocked me in the form of a letter a Roman soldier sent his wife while away on campaign. He told her nonchalantly to kill the baby if it were a girl. Very permissable with no stigma attached. They did not even regard their own children as a 'complete' human being until a certain age. Infanticide was rife, and not just during bad times. They would pick and choose which infants were worth investing in, even within royal households. Kinda makes the skin on your arms stand up to realize that the helpless didn't have a right to survive past childhood and nobody lobbied for this until well into the common era.
We live in an age where we are protected from the sight of death all around us. Children don't have to see it and hospital rooms have their private curtains. Hard choices are made when Hospice comes in with the comforts they might be able to give.
I was saddened when I saw those first releases of the Nazi experiments on children. Identical twins. Siamese twins. The murder of the mentally handicapped. These photos of the gypsies and crippled and poor aren't shared as much as those in the work camps. We wonder how these perverse physcians could go home to their families. Human families. Quite a few Nazis suicided after the war, taking with them their entire family though. Life is cheap when you see too much death or existence is too dark when the dream is lost, I guess.
It doesn't escape me that LRH was encumbered by a eugenics incident he imagined. And that attempt was at erasing even the soul's nature in case it could come back. We are going thru a psuedo eugenic experiment right now. Erasing the Will and the ability to evaluate for oneself and the the capacity to intelligently 'intend' anything. We're just going to be glommed together into some murky group think based on whatever lies are given us. It pays to remember populations are killed off when they are thought to be countering the bigger plan of the victors. It helps to know what the end game vision is. Things will surely progress in that direction and you'll have a guide.
I read this on Friday. I was surprised to see that the kabbalists of old regarded some parts of existence to be damned to a permanent LESSER condition; never to be reconciled with the Divine Causal nature that underlies the whole universe. I thought this a rather cruel notion.
Someone had decided what could be 'used' to chaff against in order to develop their own natures more perfectly. To my mind that's a situation where you are permanently projecting a
lower role on certian
matter so you can walk upon it. Value decisons are obviously made knowingly so a game can be coded.
http://yidquotes.tumblr.com/post/149751851091/the-great-kabbalist-rabbi-isaac-luria-taught-that
I'm keeping in mind that the Old Testament is ALL about genetics!. From cover to cover it speaks of the genetics of tribes, blood lines and the purity and blessings from this God or that. You can't get away from it. I makes one wonder how a Christian movement dedicated to loving one another and sharing things communally successfully emerged at all.
