Cognitive Thrift 65 – Everything
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/04/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Or what seems like everything.
Rick Rosner: Yea – one more thing. There’s a guy in the 19th century, early 20th century, Francis Galton. He was pre-genetics, but looked at the heritability of giftedness, and was one of the first people to come out in favor of eugenics.
Darwinism and genetics got all mixed into a stew of half-understood science in the 1920s and 30s. You had people coming out in favor of eugenics. The genetically inferior should be prevented from reproducing. It is super creepy, especially when you look at the Nazi involvement in it, and if different behavior and different thought is triggered by stress and tough circumstances, then eugenics has things completely backwards.
That if you only go with the fittest and best, you’re going with the most well-adjusted, and if you’re going for originality of thought, that may not be the place to look. You may have to look at the inferior, the broken, the under stress because those people may be the ones to come up with new ways of doing things and looking at things.
We can probably look at history and find dozens of examples of the supposedly genetically inferior overcoming inadequate circumstances. Both in themselves and in their environments to come up with new thought.
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