January 3, 2009

The Legacy of Malthus : The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism by Allan Chase

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In the other book I read, In the Minds of Men by Ian T. Taylor, it talked about eugenics. I wanted to learn more about eugenics, so the librarian recommended me this book, The Legacy of Malthus : The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism by Allan Chase.

[Francis] Galton’s next step to gaining acceptance by orthodox science was to coin the name “eugenics” from the Greek; the term means “well-born”. Here was the science to produce the utopian dream of a super-race to control tomorrow’s world. The dream began to be realized in 1901 with the founding of the Eugenics Education Society, based at the statistics department of University College, London. Galton lived to see the Eugenics Society eventually become a flourishing political movement, while the work on which it was all founded, the calipers and stopwatch (to measure reaction times) applied to the heads of idiots and criminals, was given scientific respectability in the professional journal Biometrika, founded and edited, of course, by Galton and [Karl] Pearson.
Before Galton died in 1911, some of the scientific community had evidently become convinced. He received many honors, including the Darwin and Wallace medal, the Copley medal, the Huxley medal, and a knighthood. However, divine retribution forbade that he should live to fulfill his own eugenic obligation. Scion of two prominent English families, married to the daughter of a third, Sir Francis Galton had died without issue. [1]

[Francis] Galton’s (1869) thesis is summed up in his statement, “to give the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable . . . the word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea” (p. 24). [2]


December 16, 2008

In the Minds of Men : Darwin and the New World Order by Ian T. Taylor

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I wanted to learn how a lot of people can be manipulated into one religion, like creationism, and then when that’s of no use anymore you manipulate them into believing in another religion, which has a “Big Bang” and “primordial soup”.

So the librarian recommended me a book. What’s cool is that Mikhail Gorbachev and the presidential adviser, Jacques Attali, used the words “new world order” in their books and this book has it on the title, which is pretty cool. It’s In the Minds of Men : Darwin and the New World Order by Ian T. Taylor.

I believe that a new structure of international relations, which I here propose, combined with the absolute superiority of democratic nations in sophisticated conventional arms, provide guarantees that are quite sufficient for genuine national security in the new world order. [1]

. . . movements of resistance are unlikely to produce models of development able to compete with the hyperindustrialism of the new world order. [2]


December 8, 2008

Millennium : Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order by Jacques Attali

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I finished reading the book Millennium : Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order by Jacques Attali.

About the author:

Jacques Attali was born in Algiers in 1943. A novelist, essayist, and writer, he has been special adviser to President Francois Mitterrand since 1981. A former professor of economics at the École Polytechnique in Paris, Attali is currently president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. [1]


November 18, 2008

Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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I finished reading Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski. This is the same guy that wrote the other book I read called The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. The librarian got me this book cause she said it’s cool.

He starts it off with something that is nice:

For Ian [Brzezinski], Mark [Brzezinski], and Mika [Brzezinski] [1]


November 6, 2008

The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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I just finished reading The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski.

What I got out of reading this book is that as an Earth Emperor you got to treat the world as a chess game on a chessboard. He calls this book The Grand Chessboard, but it’s mainly about Eurasia.

Some people recommended I check this Brzezinski dude out. I asked the librarian and she said that this guy is good. There were a few books by this dude at the library. I picked this book cause the book cover looked nice. It’s like a blue and green color.

I don’t really like playing chess. I’ve never really played it. I like playing Rock Band more.

So this book is like a passing down of knowledge to his students, cause at the beginning of the book Brzezinski says:

For my students–to help them shape tomorrow’s world [1]