First published at 13:29 UTC on December 31st, 2018.
""Ye shall be as God", or so the story goes.
«We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated…
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""Ye shall be as God", or so the story goes.
«We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.»
Dr José Delgado, Yale University Medical School
Congressional Record,
No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
«What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples. Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent.
Survival of the fittest, extinction of the unfit. This is the way to a better world.»
Prof. Richard Lynn (2004), "A Review of 'A New Morality from Science: Beyondism'", Irish Journal of Psychology, 2.
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Transhumanism was founded in the 1950s by top eugenicist Julian Huxley and the Rockefeller Foundation, as a new brand name for the pseudoscience of Eugenics. Its obsession for culling off the 'genetically inferior', while at the same time striving to promote dominance for the 'superior' had given Eugenics a bad name, particularly after the Nazi brand of Eugenics created the Holocaust, during WWII. Sadly, what most people didn't know at that time was that Nazi eugenics was merely the full-blown application of the principles that had been developed and were openly espoused by the British, French and American Eugenics Societies.
So, Eugenics lived on, under many, heavily funded formats, one of them being Transhumanism. By and large, Transhumanism proposes to use applied science in the fields of genetics, robotics and others, to 'ste..
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