My question in front of the following is – have we nothing learned from history?
In the early 1900s, Social Darwinism helped fuel the first genocide of the twentieth century when Germany tried to eradicate the Herero people in southern Africa. Learn about this horrific chapter in modern history and the abuse of Darwin’s theory to justify colonialism and extermination.
This short video is excerpted from the award-winning documentary, “The Biology of the Second Reich.”
The Horror of Scientific Racism
It starts by exploring the rise of Darwinism in Germany and then shows how this ideology impacted German colonialism in southwest Africa, leading to genocide. Be sure to check out an interview with historian Richard Weikart on Great Minds with Michael Medved, about his book From Darwin to Hitler:
Have you seen Human Zoos, the award winning film that explores America’s forgotten history of scientific racism?
The Magician’s Twin – CS Lewis & Evolution: / cslewisweb
Darwin’s Heretic – Alfred Russel Wallce: / alfredrwallaceid
Bioethics Research Notes 16(4):Dec 2004
Palgrave Macmillan, New York. ISBN 1-4039-6502-1
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in
Germany by Richard Weikart.
Richard Weikart is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislas, CA
Survival of the fittest means that might—wisely used—is right.
And we thus invoke and remorselessly fulfil the inexorable law of natural selection (or of demand and supply), when exterminating the inferior Australian and Maori races, and we appropriate their patrimony as coolly as Ahab did the vineyard of Naboth, though in diametrical opposition to all our favourite theories of right and justice— thus proved to be unnatural and false. The world is better for it; and would be incalculably better still, were we loyally to accept the lesson thus taught by nature, and consistently to apply the same principle to our conventional practice; by preserving the varieties most perfect in every way, instead of actually promoting the non-survival of the fittest by protecting the propagation of the imprudent, the diseased, the defective, and the criminal.1
Let the reader ponder this concise, unequivocal, rational—very rational—formulation of the practical implications of the evolutionary origin of species. Moral philosophers through millennia searched reason and divinity for salutary guidance and produced countless books recording their results. But here, in a few brush strokes, the long quest culminates in a stark raving scientific insight into humankind’s true predicament. The fundamental ethical reality is that we are natural born killers. In this we differ only by degree from the remainder of animal nature, for we may direct our efforts wisely or foolishly. Foolish choices are sanctioned by the prevailing morality, which admonishes mercy to the vanquished and care to the weak and vulnerable. But the light of reason, released from the fetters of superstition, enjoins purposively directed genocide, euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, and positive eugenics.
That message is the core thought of the dozens of biologists and publicists brought together in Richard Weikart’s artfully wrought study of the efflorescence of social Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1920. This literature is for the most part untranslated and known in the Anglophone culture—when it is known at all—through secondary writings such as this.
To establish a connection between ourselves and that literature, I commenced with the quotation above. Its author is Henry K. Rusden, writing in the debut issue of the Melbourne Review (1876), which he and friends established to promote the secular outlook. Rusden was a public servant2, an office bearer of the Victorian Royal Society, and co-founder of the Eclectic Association, a forerunner of Victoria’s Humanist Society, which staunchly supports birth control, abortion, euthanasia, and no-limits reproductive technology. (The Society opposes genocide on humanitarian and human rights grounds).
The radical message of social Darwinism was wrapped in an envelope best described as ‘the scientific world view’.
By mid-Nineteenth Century it was a robust, widely diffused, and variegated outlook whose exponents championed all-sided progress. It was integral to professional standard of the growing cadres of scientific and technological elites. It was explicit in free trade economics, but socialists of many hues also claimed it as their watchword. It had penetrated literature, theatre, and the arts. From its inception in 17th Century rationalist philosophy and science, whose great metaphor was the World Machine, the scientific worldview posed some acute questions.
If nature is ordered by strict laws admitting no exceptions, what is to be made of miracles?
If the world is a machine, must not we humans be machines also?
If so, does not the soul vanish, taking free will and the moral capacity with it?
‘Yes’ answers to these questions resulted in militant anti-religious materialism by the onset of the French Revolution.
By mid-Nineteenth Century, this version of the scientific worldview enjoyed cultural penetration of great depth, although its declared exponents were a minority and not one of Europe’s leading scientists or statesmen
endorsed it. Recalling this context helps explain the sudden change of climate precipitated by the publication of On the Origin of Species.
Although the book contained few express statements about scientific principles or method, many of its initial readers interpreted it to be a full-fledged vindication of scientific materialism.
Although Darwin would publish not a word about the application of his theory to humankind until 1871, the tabloid press instantly labelled Darwin as endorsing the sensational notion of our species’ pithecoid origin. Although Darwin’s book presented no empirical proof of the evolution of even one species, his partisans vehemently proclaimed that he had proved the evolution of all species.
Although the book’s reasoning is embedded in technical detail across numerous fields—details whose accuracy is essential to the success of the argument— that forbidding challenge did not prevent numerous readers, including those with no knowledge whatever of natural history, from experiencing Darwin’s message as a Grand Revelation.
To instance one example: Richard Goldschmidt, a leading geneticist, wrote that at age sixteen
...it seemed that all problems of heaven and earth were solved simply and convincingly; there was an answer to every question which troubled the young mind. Evolution was the key to everything and could replace all the beliefs and creeds which one was discarding. There were no creation, no God, no heaven and hell, only evolution and the wonderful law of recapitulation which demonstrated the fact of evolution to the most stubborn believer in creation.3
This Eureka transformed many persons, male and female, young and old, scientist and non-scientist. Be it noted that life-changing responses to books is commonplace and is unrelated to cognitive merit. This observation helps to understand what was involved in ‘the Darwinian Revolution’. Antecedent cultural change had prepared a wide public for a scientific catechism of thoroughgoing materialism. Darwin’s Origin was perceived to fulfil this expectation. This in turn involved a psychological Gestalt switch that shunted aside what was previously self-evident and made room for what was previously unthinkable. Social Darwinism, with its base-line conviction that life is devoid of sanctity, that is, merely animal, occupied this space in the bat of an eye. For example, Clemence Royer was among the initial admirers. In 1862 she published her French translation of Origin, together with a long introduction in which she linked free market economics—for her the social engine of Progress—with natural selection—the natural counter-part—to produce the first clear statement of Social Darwinism.
She wrote: What is the result of this exclusive and unintelligent protection accorded to the weak, the infirm, the incurable, the wicked, to all those who are ill-favored by nature? It is that ills which have afflicted them tend to be perpetuated and multiplied indefinitely; the evil is increased instead of diminishing, and tends to grow at the expense of good.4
Those who have probed the ethics of life’s sanctity, or the challenges of Creationism vs. Evolution, will be aware that they are dealing with two positions that seem unbridgeable by argument. My remarks are intended to assist understanding why this is so. Those who deny the sanctity of life, on the basis of what I style ‘stark raving rationalism’, have undergone a conversion experience that shuts off any return to preconversion sensitivity to sanctity arguments, even arguments of a prudential kind. By electing to emphasize this point, I have foregone comment on Weikart’s rich historical evidence about the initial deniers of life’s sanctity. Let me leave it by strongly recommending this study to any ethics student who wishes to understand the actual performance of denial in its initial historical manifestation. You will find that it presents a very different set of historical facts than those usually adduced by Darwin advocates.
1 Henry K. Rusden, Labour and capital. Melbourne Review 1:1(Jan 1876):67-83.
2 For an account of Rusden and his friends, see Ralph Biddington, Eclectic Association: Victoria’s First Rationalists, 1866-1895, Australian Rationalist, 51(2):35-44, 2004.
3 Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2004, p11.
4 Ibid., p89
2004 Southern Cross Bioethics Institute Adelaide, South Australia
From Davin to Davos
The Center for Garden State Families would like to continue our series on worldview by discussing Klaus Schwab, who we consider to be the world’s most influential man. Before we begin, it is essential to note that an individual is not born with a worldview. Our worldview is shaped by a multitude of factors that ultimately form our identity. The factors which shape our worldview over time include faith, family, friends, community, education, cultural and societal peer pressures, and the life circumstances and historical events that we have lived. Many of us can tell stories about how our grandparents went through the depression and World War II. These events greatly impacted their lives as well as their worldview.
For this article, we would like to take our readers back to the year 1938 in Nazi Germany. This year saw a Fascist Dictator named Adolph Hitler rise to power. The year 1938 saw the following events unfold. Hitler abolishes the war ministry giving him direct control over the German military. German troops occupy Austria, followed by the annexation of Austria by Germany. There was the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the expulsion of 12,000 Polish Jews living there. In addition, 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were deported to Poland, and thus the began the Holocaust on November 9th with Kristallnacht, also known as the night of broken glass. The all-night affair saw Nazi activists loot and burn businesses resulting in 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 Synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested. The year 1938 was the spark that lit the raging fires of World War II. This era is considered to be one of the most horrific periods of the 20th Century. This singular point in time scarred the lives and worldview of many who were part of this historical moment.
It is important to understand this period because Klaus Schwab was born on March 30th, 1938, in Ravensburg, Germany. Very little is known about his childhood. The only available information is that his father was a businessman who went over the border to Switzerland, leaving him and his mother alone in war-torn Germany. But also according to his own statement, Klaus‘ father is a successful rocket and weapons producer of the company Escher Wyss.
A young Klaus Schwab grew up and was influenced by these events, especially the notion of borders, destruction, and death. On the other end of the spectrum were Adolph Hitler’s aspirations in his desire to take over the world, ushering in the Third Reich that would reign for one thousand years. As Klaus Schwab grew, he lived in a country that used a police state built on fear and violence, brown shirts and operatives, surveillance, brainwashing and control, propaganda and lies, the merger of government and businesses, eugenics, dehumanization, and a focus on hygiene.
Today Klaus Schwab heads up the World Economic Forum and is the Great Reset’s driving force. Our next article will delve into the Great Reset or aptly stated the Blitzkrieg of the 21st Century. For this article, we need to explore Klaus Schwab’s mind to see if we can draw parallels in his thinking to the events that shaped his life in Nazi Germany.
Klaus Schwab wrote many books, including his latest book published in 2020 called „Covid 19: The Great Reset“ and later in the „The Great Narrativ“ . We would now like to delve into some of his thinking, which spans many years of his career. To begin, Mr. Schwab seems to be fascinated with transhumanism, where he sees a merger of humans and machines whereby in his own words, will be “curious mixes of digital and analog life.” He delights in “sensors, memory switches and circuits that can be encoded in common human gut bacteria” and that “Smart Dust, arrays of full computers with antennas, each much smaller than a grain of sand, can now organize themselves inside the body” and that “implanted devices will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally through a built-in smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or mood by reading brain waves and other signals.” With these ideas, one cannot help but think of Joseph Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, who conducted medical experiments on the Jews in concentration camps.
Also, Mr. Schwab gleefully states “that it is now far easier to manipulate with precision the human genome within viable embryos means that we are likely to see the advent of designer babies in the future who possess particular traits or who are resistant to specific diseases.” Adolph Hitler would be proud of Mr. Schwab’s quest for a Master Race of people. As if this is not alarming enough, Mr. Schwab is now using the pandemic to promote his personal version of hygiene. According to Mr. Schwab, “the pandemic will certainly heighten our focus on hygiene. A new obsession with cleanliness will particularly entail the creation of new forms of packaging. We will be encouraged not to touch the products we buy. Simple pleasures like smelling a melon or squeezing a fruit will be frowned upon and may even become a thing of the past.”
To many, this may seem like the meanderings of an 82-year-old man with early-onset dementia. However, we would be remiss if we did not refer to Susan Bachrach, Ph.D. who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 29th, 2004 the following: “In democratic societies, the needs of public health sometimes require citizens to make sacrifices for the greater good, but in Nazi Germany, national or public health — Volksgesundheit — took complete precedence over individual health care. Physicians and medically trained academics, many of whom were proponents of “racial hygiene,” or eugenics, legitimized and helped to implement Nazi policies aiming to “cleanse” the German Society of people viewed as biologic threats to the nation’s health.
Racial-hygiene measures began with the mass sterilization of the “genetically diseased” and ended with the near-annihilation of European Jewry.” Further Mr. Schwab states as it pertains to the Covid 19 Pandemic that “the next hurdle is the political challenge of vaccinating enough people worldwide (we are collectively as strong as the weakest link) with a high enough compliance rate despite the rise of anti-vaxxers.” The question here becomes who comprises the weakest link which is perhaps a veiled statement about the German idea of “racial hygiene” or eugenics.
SCHWAB IN 2016, FOUNDER OF WEF STATING THEY WILL IMPLANT CHIPS TO OUR BRAINS AND BE CONNECTED TO A.I.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220105185451/https://www.bitchute.com/video/vgrejS6QmPXg/
The best Exempel of Darwin-Hitler-Davos-Thinking tells us also Yuval Noah Harari.
Yuval Noah Harari discusses the creation of a massive class of useless people and what should be done with them
2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD 11.12.2023
by Rhoda Wilson
In 2015 and 2017, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari discussed how a massive class of useless people was being created. The artificial intelligence revolution is beginning to create “the useless class,” he said.
When asked if his 2015 book provided any solutions, he responded: “At present, the best guess we have is to keep them [the useless class] happy with drugs and computer games.”In 2015, Yuval Noah Hararipublished two books: ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind’ and ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’.
Dr. John Lennox, a renowned Oxford Mathematician and author of ‘2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity’, said Harari concerned him because of his widespread influence. “He really is an influencer … What he actually has to say concerns me more because of its inaccuracy and his reading of history seems, to me, to be very strange,” Dr. Lennox said.
In Homo Deus, Dr. Lennox said, Harari says that there are two major agenda items for the 21st century. “The first is to solve the technological problem of human death. He regards it as a technical problem and a technical problem with technical solutions. And then secondly, to enhance human happiness … [On] enhancing human happiness his target is, and this is more or less a quote, ‘is to turn Homo sapiens into Homo Deus’. In other words, turn humans into gods.”
Read more: Dr. John Lennox discusses AI, Yuval Harari and possibly the most dangerous of them all – longtermism
Shortly after he released Homo Deus Harari gave a speech based on his other book Sapiens at TEDTalks. After his speech, Harai was asked to elaborate on a statement he made in his book Sapiens: “… new classes and new class struggles, just as the industrial revolution did.”
Harari answered: “In the industrial revolution, we saw the creation of a new class of the urban proletariat. And much of the political and social history of the last 200 years involved what to do with this class and the new problems and opportunities.”
“Now, we see the creation of a new massive class of useless people,” he said.
“As computers become better and better in more and more fields, there is a distinct possibility that computers will out-perform us in most tasks and will make humans redundant. And then the big political and economic question of the 21st century will be, ‘What do we need humans for?’, or at least, ‘What do we need so many humans for?’”
Harari was then asked whether there were answers to those questions in his book. He responded: “At present, the best guess we have is to keep them happy with drugs and computer games.”
He clarified he was not predicting the future but rather laying out possibilities. “It’s not a prophecy; it’s seeing all kinds of possibilities before us,” he said.
As he saw it, there were only two possibilities; both would result in a massive number of useless people. He said:
“One possibility is this creation of a new massive class of useless people. Another possibility is the division of humankind into different biological castes, with the rich being upgraded into virtual gods, and the poor being degraded to this level of useless people.”
Just over two years later he joined Turkish broadcaster TRT’s The Newsmakers. TRT asks in the video caption: Thanks to new technology and artificial intelligence, will we achieve near immortality, or is the future for the human race a bleak one?
“The three biggest problems of humankind in the 21st century is the danger of nuclear war, it’s the danger of climate change and it’s the dangers inherent in disruptive technologies especially bioengineering and artificial intelligence,” Harari said.
“We are now gaining really divine powers of creation and destruction just as according to ancient religions God had the power to create animals and plants and humans according to his wishes. Now humankind in the 21st century with bioengineering and artificial intelligence gains this divine power to engineer and manufacture life.”
According to Harari, the main products of the 21st century economy will not be things like textiles, vehicles and weapons. “The main products will be bodies and brains and minds. We are learning to design life … we are really upgrading ourselves into gods.”
It’s not absolutely certain technology, it’s not deterministic and we can still do something about it, he said. “But, if we are not careful then, within the next century – let’s say within a hundred years – we may see humankind splitting into biological casts … With the rise of bioengineering, it might be possible to translate economic inequality into biological inequality and then … we will see humankind splitting into castes.”
He again referred to the creation of “the useless class.”
“The artificial intelligence revolution is beginning to create the useless class. As computers outperform humans in more and more tasks, they are likely to push them out of more and more jobs. And then the danger is that you will have millions of people even billions of people who don’t have any economic value and therefore they also don’t have any political power.”
Frankly It’s disgusting! And really dangerous!
JULIMINATION 
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