Yeah eugenics is an intoxicating idea because it starts out with “what if we artificially selected for the best traits in humanity, how far could we go if everyone was performing at their best” and ends up with at best GATTACA and at worst lobotomies, gas chambers, forced sterilisations, and authoritarianism over people’s bodies.
People get wrapped up in these conspiracies because they lack control over some parts of their life and so will grasp at anything that can explain away the bad situation as being some malicious conspiracy.
When in reality, somewhere the system has failed them because the support or opportunities they need hasn’t been delivered.
Rather than focusing on how everyone appears to be an inept ill-informed idiot that isn’t doing anything meaningful, individuals and by extension society, should focus on how to elevate what people are good at and what they can contribute.
Yeah eugenics is an intoxicating idea because it starts out with “what if we artificially selected for the best traits in humanity, how far could we go if everyone was performing at their best” and ends up with at best GATTACA and at worst lobotomies, gas chambers, forced sterilisations, and authoritarianism over people’s bodies.
People get wrapped up in these conspiracies because they lack control over some parts of their life and so will grasp at anything that can explain away the bad situation as being some malicious conspiracy.
When in reality, somewhere the system has failed them because the support or opportunities they need hasn’t been delivered.
Rather than focusing on how everyone appears to be an inept ill-informed idiot that isn’t doing anything meaningful, individuals and by extension society, should focus on how to elevate what people are good at and what they can contribute.