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A couple of quick points about eugenics, climate change, and art restoration

October 26, 2018 by Bookworm Leave a Comment

The eugenics debate from a century ago bears striking similarities to the climate change debate today, while Leftists try to bring racism to old statuary.

I’ve actually been doing paid legal work all day long, with a short deadline, which makes blogging difficult if not impossible. Nevertheless, I wanted to raise two quick points that impinged on my consciousness in the past few days.

Eugenics and climate change. The first point comes about because over the past couple of nights I watched a fairly good PBS documentary about eugenics. While it didn’t mention Margaret Sanger’s racism, it did touch upon a lot of other interesting points about the eugenic craze in America:

  • The way in which someone took a scientific theory (evolution) and ran with it;
  • “Scientific” research that started with conclusions and forced the data;
  • Big money;
  • The buy-in of the American elite in the name of expertise, science, and self-improvement;
  • The panic about a nation that could be destroyed by “defective” human beings, whether because of birth defects, substance abuse, or inferior race;
  • The doubling down as doubt crept in amongst serious researchers; and
  • The movement’s eventual failure when it reached its inevitable and extreme conclusion with the Nazis.

If those factors remind you of something, then I’ve successfully made my point, which is that the whole eugenics foofaraw is like a template for climate change hysteria. Just think about the fact that the climate change craze:

  • Took a scientific theory and ran with it;
  • Larded the theory with dubious “science” towards a predetermined conclusion;
  • Got big money;
  • Got the buy-in of a hysterical elite in thrall to expertise, science, and self-improvement;
  • Turned into an eschatalogical, Manichean panic to prevent the end of the world;
  • Saw its true believers double down in the face of opposing evidence; and
  • (Finally) seems to be falling under its own weight as it becomes clear to ordinary people that it has no substance and is being used for bad ends (in the case of climate change, to enrich hucksters and impoverish ordinary people around the globe).

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Filed Under: Art, Climate change Tagged With: Art Restoration, Climate change, Color Reconstruction, Eugenics, Greek Statues, Roman Statues

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