What is eugenics?

Most mothers do not want more children than they can cope with, for their own sake and for the children's sake. The present drivers for large families and larger populations need public identification and checking. Their reasons for seeking many children do not consider the interests of each child.

Large families are a delight – but in these times they are a privilege and not a right. They put stresses on sustainability, and research evidence is that children in large families can more often lack advantages – though this is by no means always the case. However, when families today must be small, we can still continue to enjoy a multitude of children together in communities and extended families, if our housing designs are planned to allow this.

Conclusion

As populations increasingly strain our resources, there will be those who will urge limiting measures such as to force other individuals to be barren, and to kill off the unwanted and those perceived to be inferior, in whatever way. The three basic rights of the living, to be enabled to survive decently, to reproduce, and to have decent childhood conditions to establish quality of life, are three rights that need to be set firmly now. And 'eugenics' includes how these rights can be ensured.

Eugenics has an urgent mission today to prevent humans being turned into less than they could be. The human race is not becoming super-men, but lesser-men, untermensch, who are unable to even try to be 'homo sapiens', to be wise humans who can find ways out of the man-made disasters that loom ahead.

The aim of 'well born' is a life of 'well-being'. A child born perfect, with an ideal conglomeration of genes, can still be damaged in its capacity to be really alive and operational. Our society tends to go in for ambulances, rather than prevention.

It might be expected in a century of increasingly complex technological marvels and their consequents that most people would be developing greater capacities for reason, to manage what we can invent and make.[1] Yet evidence is around us that most people behave less intelligently than they might – as we do ourselves.

The phrase 'dumbing-down' is so often flung around in partisan polemics that hearers can just shrug. Yet it is a phenomenon that calls for investigation as a significant change of intellectual climate. 'Dumbing-down' in a culture can be regarded as another sort of climate change. Its manifestations are a shift in the prevailing popular culture to

Dumbing down is a dysphemism for a perceived over-simplification of, amongst others, education, news and television.

Political and commercial interests benefit from mass cultùre that keeps people ignorant, apathetic, helpless and consùming, and prevents connected thinking, organized knowledge and co-operative action to stop injustices.

I am using it as the response, not what is done to people, but how they respond.

escapes and consolations should be 'regression in the service of the ego' as Freud put it – a temporary reversion to more childish behaviour that is accurately dscribed as recreation – re-creation.