tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post1603822340975913863..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: "but I want to justify natural selection to you" - Hate MailUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-22685588222920055272018-07-17T01:30:10.128-04:002018-07-17T01:30:10.128-04:00It's so well known that the Nazis had sympathi...It's so well known that the Nazis had sympathizers among the British aristocracy (starting with the Prince who abdicated, a fortuitous circumstance for Britain and the Windsors, as it turned out) that it shows up now in contemporary British TV stories set after the war.<br /><br />So, of course there's a connection. I mean, how could there not be?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-79306574155031968432018-07-16T22:22:48.315-04:002018-07-16T22:22:48.315-04:00It was so widespread among the Anglo-American and ...It was so widespread among the Anglo-American and other European elites that it's harder to find prominent people who didn't buy into that than could be believed.<br /><br />I have come to see Nazism as part of a continuum of Darwinist advocacy of getting rid or entire races, ethnicities, classes of people based on their alleged inferiority - oddly, none of those in the elites suspect they and theirs are susceptible to that inferiority, one of the first things that struck me in this was, as a famously chronically ill person (some modern scholars speculate he had severe lactose intolerance) Charles Darwin should have voluntarily been childless, as it was he sired a large family WITH HIS COUSIN, most of whom don't seem to have had many children among themselves. <br /><br />I would be curious to know how much of Pearson's stuff like this was translated into German or how many times this kind of stuff was cited in German sources. I don't have access to a university library anymore so I can't research that question. It is obvious proto-Nazism in English, written by a Fabian "socialist" who was clearly hostile to democracy. He was only one of many such Fabians who casually talked about entire races being murdered to improve the species, and the poor. The hostility to the British as well as the poor in other countries is palpable, it's like falling into a vat of toxic waste to try to understand their motives. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-69577070140446969212018-07-16T18:12:35.691-04:002018-07-16T18:12:35.691-04:00"From our standpoint we are forced to realize..."From our standpoint we are forced to realize that in judging of social conduct - e.g. - of the suitability of persons for charity, etc., we should be particular in inquiring concerning ancestry. Pity and help the weak, but remember that it is a national evil when any charitable or social institution allows the indefinite multiplication of the unfit in mind or body."<br /><br />"Three generations of imbeciles is enough!" Back when, I have to remind a contemporary audience, "imbecile" was a legal term of art with a statutory definition. It wasn't just a general term of opprobrium. Holmes literally meant people so classified were not fit to live among the rest of us. Society must be defended, ya know.<br />Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com