[internet autism]
In a liberalized society where every social and economic institution is deregulated as much as possible - brutal (free market) competition invades every space and facet of a person's life. Every sacred or intimate relationship and institution is stripped of its traditional, religious legitimizations and justifications via intellectual deconstruction first - in a weakened state it is attacked via popular protest by progressive activists - and finally free market forces sink their teeth in the deregulated entity, and literally and figuratively strip the assets from its bones and commodify it for the purposes of profit maximization.
This (neo)liberal logic now applies to economic relations (product markets, capital markets, labour markets) and social relations as well (religious and spiritual affiliations, marriages, dating, regional/national or racial affiliation, friendships, social class awareness and solidarity, extended family - they are working on deconstructing the actual blood bonds that form the nuclear family as well). All so individuals are 'freed' and 'liberated' from any responsibility or relation they don't wish to be a part of.
In a modern society the unlimited freedom creates a churn and dynamism that makes life increasingly unpredictable, dynamic and forces anybody and everybody to become an account manager carefully managing their cultural, social and labour 'capital' to remain an interesting prospect whenever you inevitably (are) exit(ed from) old social, romantic or labour relations and must re-enter the market. That means that there are more and more opportunities to drop out off the market and by extension out of society, because increasingly the market is the society.
Loser merchandise that fails, for whatever reason in the market, will simply be scrapped, loser companies, that fail for whatever reason, are declared bankrupt and their remaining assets are liquidated. In both cases individuals and society are freed from the burden of the failed or unproductive entity. Creative destruction requires the failures, the inefficient, the left overs to be washed away, to always make place for the new
Getting rid of unwanted loser humans is harder - in the most liberal European societies unplanned (or handicapped) children are aborted so the mother and the man who fathered the child are not inconvenienced, terminally ill, severely handicapped and sick elderly are euthanized so family and health care systems are no longer inconvenienced. Laid off, divorced middle aged men from working and middle class uncoupled from their ancestral religion and community, who internalized the liberal logic self-euthenize with shotguns and ropes to remove the burden of their own failure.
On the birth side of life the removal of tradition and religion has led to explicit selection for success and optimaliztion. Single career women doing IVF with seed of carefully selected high status males - I hear sperm from tall Danish men with serious university credentials and a professional career is a very popular export. Sperm of tall NASA engineers with PhD's and social ability as well. Silicon Valley elite power couples are already getting pregnant via IVF to preselect as much as possible for the healthiest offspring and you can bet they will jump on the concept of gene-edited kids as soon as it becomes available (either in the West or the East). Additionally multimillionaires and billionaires and powerful politicians have the option of openly occupying the fertile years of up to 3 or 4 women and creating 3 families, support them all and face no societal condemnation. A little lower down the totem pole there are high status professional men who get to perform the trick of fathering 2 or maybe 3 families as well. Much further down the social ranks there are growing groups of unpartnered men and women no longer participate in the reproductive process, either voluntary, semi-voluntary or involuntary by being distracted by casual relationships, consumer goods and careers or by virtue (curse really) of not being a viable prospect or having too little means to raise offspring.
European and American atheist liberal progressives in the 1920s and 1930s were very big on eugenics to improve society as they imagined it. Mostly via mass sterilization of unwanted classes of undesirables like low IQ people, criminals and chronically (mentally) ill. But they freaked out when Germanic autism applied German absolutist thinking, efficiency and thoroughness to the novel concept of eugenics coupled with reinvigorated 19th century nationalism instead of worship of 'progress', the free market and 'liberty'. There has been a lot of hollow rhetoric about 'human rights', 'intrinsic value of human life' and condemnations of 'barberic and unethical eugenic practices' since then but 75 years beyond the Nuremberg trials eugenics is back as ever - in different guises, with different names, this time justified via rhetoric about individual (female) 'emancipation', 'liberation' and 'quality of life'.
TL;DR despite liberal rhetoric to the contrary, in a godless, atomized, fully liberalized, transactional society where individuals are free to choose, de facto eugenics seem inevitable. [/autism]
If you made it this far your time is as worthless as mine is. Lol.
In a liberalized society where every social and economic institution is deregulated as much as possible - brutal (free market) competition invades every space and facet of a person's life. Every sacred or intimate relationship and institution is stripped of its traditional, religious legitimizations and justifications via intellectual deconstruction first - in a weakened state it is attacked via popular protest by progressive activists - and finally free market forces sink their teeth in the deregulated entity, and literally and figuratively strip the assets from its bones and commodify it for the purposes of profit maximization.
This (neo)liberal logic now applies to economic relations (product markets, capital markets, labour markets) and social relations as well (religious and spiritual affiliations, marriages, dating, regional/national or racial affiliation, friendships, social class awareness and solidarity, extended family - they are working on deconstructing the actual blood bonds that form the nuclear family as well). All so individuals are 'freed' and 'liberated' from any responsibility or relation they don't wish to be a part of.
In a modern society the unlimited freedom creates a churn and dynamism that makes life increasingly unpredictable, dynamic and forces anybody and everybody to become an account manager carefully managing their cultural, social and labour 'capital' to remain an interesting prospect whenever you inevitably (are) exit(ed from) old social, romantic or labour relations and must re-enter the market. That means that there are more and more opportunities to drop out off the market and by extension out of society, because increasingly the market is the society.
Loser merchandise that fails, for whatever reason in the market, will simply be scrapped, loser companies, that fail for whatever reason, are declared bankrupt and their remaining assets are liquidated. In both cases individuals and society are freed from the burden of the failed or unproductive entity. Creative destruction requires the failures, the inefficient, the left overs to be washed away, to always make place for the new
Getting rid of unwanted loser humans is harder - in the most liberal European societies unplanned (or handicapped) children are aborted so the mother and the man who fathered the child are not inconvenienced, terminally ill, severely handicapped and sick elderly are euthanized so family and health care systems are no longer inconvenienced. Laid off, divorced middle aged men from working and middle class uncoupled from their ancestral religion and community, who internalized the liberal logic self-euthenize with shotguns and ropes to remove the burden of their own failure.
On the birth side of life the removal of tradition and religion has led to explicit selection for success and optimaliztion. Single career women doing IVF with seed of carefully selected high status males - I hear sperm from tall Danish men with serious university credentials and a professional career is a very popular export. Sperm of tall NASA engineers with PhD's and social ability as well. Silicon Valley elite power couples are already getting pregnant via IVF to preselect as much as possible for the healthiest offspring and you can bet they will jump on the concept of gene-edited kids as soon as it becomes available (either in the West or the East). Additionally multimillionaires and billionaires and powerful politicians have the option of openly occupying the fertile years of up to 3 or 4 women and creating 3 families, support them all and face no societal condemnation. A little lower down the totem pole there are high status professional men who get to perform the trick of fathering 2 or maybe 3 families as well. Much further down the social ranks there are growing groups of unpartnered men and women no longer participate in the reproductive process, either voluntary, semi-voluntary or involuntary by being distracted by casual relationships, consumer goods and careers or by virtue (curse really) of not being a viable prospect or having too little means to raise offspring.
European and American atheist liberal progressives in the 1920s and 1930s were very big on eugenics to improve society as they imagined it. Mostly via mass sterilization of unwanted classes of undesirables like low IQ people, criminals and chronically (mentally) ill. But they freaked out when Germanic autism applied German absolutist thinking, efficiency and thoroughness to the novel concept of eugenics coupled with reinvigorated 19th century nationalism instead of worship of 'progress', the free market and 'liberty'. There has been a lot of hollow rhetoric about 'human rights', 'intrinsic value of human life' and condemnations of 'barberic and unethical eugenic practices' since then but 75 years beyond the Nuremberg trials eugenics is back as ever - in different guises, with different names, this time justified via rhetoric about individual (female) 'emancipation', 'liberation' and 'quality of life'.
TL;DR despite liberal rhetoric to the contrary, in a godless, atomized, fully liberalized, transactional society where individuals are free to choose, de facto eugenics seem inevitable. [/autism]
If you made it this far your time is as worthless as mine is. Lol.
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