Regardless of when or where we live, we inevitably perceive ourselves as the Middle Kingdom, and either we smile condescendingly at the mythmaking of other cultures or we go to war with them to force upon them our (uniquely correct) worldview. And if we are better at crafting weapons, we are generally able to persuade those we have physically conquered of the superiority of our myths over theirs.
Glad, John. (2008) "Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century." Hermitage, Schuylkill Haven. p.8
...and although John Glad's book/extended paper on eugenics commences in an innocuous fashion, and gently argues its way around the politics of eugenics, I must explicitly state that there are elements of his book that I don't agree with. Despite the fact that he begins the book with a seemingly sociologically sensitive statement, by the time we reach the final stretch of his argument we read, "Abortion should be actively promoted, since it often serves as the last and even only resort for many low-IQ mothers who fail to practice contraception." (p.79). So much of his argument hinges upon the concept of IQ as a measure of the right to survive. It disturbs me that we still have people who measure intelligence and potential in a number. Read with caution.
