‘second reality’ ping
PFL
Leftism, liberalism, progressivism, etc, whatever they call it,
is simply the political expression of the religion of Humanism,
which is an “alternate truth” offered by the father of lies in Genesis 3.
Next up, “scientific phrenology”, that it was the lumps on his head that determined his actions. Followed shortly thereafter with “scientific astrology”.
I gravitate toward this type of analysis (from experience), and would appreciate being included on a ping list, if you manage one.
I would love to discuss a disagreement I have with Dr. Ray, who says;
“he is deeply (but discreetly) in love with himself (narcissism) so secretly despises others”
I say no. The Narcissist actually HATES HIMSELF - and it is from this self-loathing that his hate for others derives.
If for no other reason:
Pro 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so [is] he
Not all of the eugenics movement was pseudoscientific.
There had long been the argument of “nature vs. nurture”, of which of the two is “deterministic” of the life of a person. In truth, both are.
Eugenics fit squarely on the side of “nature”. But from there it had a clear division: either using selective breeding to produce better humans, techniques long used to create better farm animals; or restricting the breeding of those with undesirable traits, some of them quite severe.
In the late 19th Century, there was strong evidence that guided breeding of humans could produce extraordinary people. One of the idealistic European communes in western New York state was led by a charismatic man, who set rules that marriage and the breeding of children were different, and that his skilled farmer’s eye for selective breeding would produce the best children.
In effect, though couples were married and would raise “their” children, the leader would determine who would mate with the mother.
The results were impressive. In the three generations the commune existed, from a small number of parents, it produced some 60 children who became nationally recognized as tops in their respective fields in the arts and sciences.
However, they did not know that had this continued just one more generation, inbreeding would have resulted in significant genetic failure. And yet, his “farmer’s eye” was far better than modern science can produce today with our knowledge of biology and genetics.
Then, around the turn of the century, the Germans started doing extensive, long-term studies of identical twins separated at birth and raised by different families far apart. They noted several cases of profound parallelism, and some cases with none.
However, the other side of Eugenics, the “dark side”, while motivated by the horror and tragedy of children born with retardation, terrible genetic diseases, and other deficiencies condemning them and their progeny to lives of unending misery; still resulted in horrific abuses around the world.
Even today, such abuses continue. A recent case was by the health minister of France, who had become aware that the blood derived clotting factor given to hemophiliacs had been contaminated with HIV, yet still allowed it to be issued. So by his actions, one man killed every hemophiliac in France.
But the 20th Century was filled with abuses done in the name of genetics. Almost every modern nation did so, and many still do, with things from “sterilization courts”, to mass sterilizations of indigenous peoples, to the currently popular “mandatory abortion” of “defective” fetuses (with as little as a hairlip) in countries with socialized medicine.
A popular “defect” resulting in abortion is that the fetus is female. This is so bad that both India and China are now experiencing very imbalanced gender demographics on an unprecedented scale, and possibly with catastrophic results.