Let’s talk about eugenics! Eugenics is basically controlled breeding of humans (see also humaniculture). Alexander Graham Bell was into it. And so were almost all the original Captains of Industry (ie, “Robber Barons”) back in the good old days when our country was hammered into the shape it has taken today. The subject was only given a black eye when the technocratic experiment of Nazi Germany became a little too successful at it. People just weren’t ready for it, so they scaled it back, renamed it genetics and gave it a spiffy new public image.

Which means, folks, that these principles are still being utilized on us, right now, as we speak. But I think social managers realized they didn’t need to go to the trouble of putting us all who didn’t fit their plan into ovens to dispose of us when they could simply instill in us self-hatred, and then feed us an endless supply of products to fill that gap as we try to emulate the phenotypes and neurotypes which they wish to promote.

And so, this podcast looks at these idea in a bit more detail: how mass media and advertising train us to genetically select for and against certain characteristics. Media eugenics, in a nutshell. I also go into a bit about the dangers of creating monocultures, and the need to encourage biodiversity, and therefore neurodiversity. I’m beginning to think that the only way “we” can win is to show “them” that their system and goals are scientifically not viable…

Also, once you’ve listened to this podcast, please come back and leave some comments on what you think the “ideal human” as promulgated by the media looks like. I have some ideas myself, but thought this would be a good place to seed a conversation on this!

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