Our Readers Write The letters printed here are selected on the basis of interest and relevance. Future Generations doesn't necessarily endorse all statements they contain. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 2:08 AM Good day, Marian Van Court, Thank you so much for writing your articles on Eugenics. Your website has been thoroughly insightful for me. I write to you as someone who is genetically more predisposed to have qualities that do not naturally promote human betterment - I am a black woman. I know that separate from lower IQ, I am more likely to procreate children with undesirable qualities that would undermine the purpose of eugenics. I also know that my race is twice as likely as Whites to engage in criminal activity, a result, more than likely, from lower IQ that can lead to crime and more social problems. If there is any truth to Margaret Sanger's Negro Project, I admit that I do understand why she and others would have encouraged this. In an attempt to salvage human civilization, society should be thankful for her contributions. That said, I often wonder what more I can do as a black woman to support eugenics. Separate from trying to provide whatever donations I can to The Pioneer Fund, the Milbank Memorial Fund and women clinic's in developing countries that encourage abortion and sterilization within dysgenic societies, I recently made the decision to voluntarily sterilize myself as to prevent the increase risk of adding to a human population of degenerates. I will be completely honest and admit that I wish more black women agreed to voluntary sterilization. For the most part, we have added little to society. I am most comfortable with this decision in my life and while others may call it black genocide, I call it taking a pre-emptive step in helping the cause of eugenics and betterment of society. I still have so much to read on this subject, but I want to relay that some of us are taking steps to entirely prevent procreation that adds nothing to society. I am forever grateful in knowing my decision, though difficult, is the right one. Thanks for your time, and I look forward to reading more of your contributions! - Rachel ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:10 PM
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 9:55 AM I cannot speak openly about my ordeal because I would be criticized harshly by most for my opinions. I never really understood about the mental retardation in my family, but looking back, it was there. My husband is from a very nutty, dysfunctional maternal family, with a very questionable paternal heritage. I always wanted to have only one child so that I could lead a more free and financially stable life. My husband and I could not reach a decision regarding this matter, and as a Christian, I was forced to defer to his leadership. After our first son was born, he was diagnosed with autism. I took him to a psychiatrist who told me that there was absolutely no genetic link in autism, that it was a fluke. If I had been taught in the 2 psychology courses that I took in college about the genetic link, I would have probably been sterilized. My husband wanted more children. To make the story short, I had 3 more children. One was later diagnosed with severe psychoses and autism. The other two are functional, but with some degree of autism. My husband (lower IQ) left us for his pregnant girlfriend before my last was born. The school system has failed us, and even though I have an advanced degree, I am forced to homeschool the children, living off welfare, so that I can try to make productive citizens from them. I love my children because they are mine. I am very proud of their accomplishments. They have, however, suffered a great deal for their deficiencies. They are rejected by their peers. One of them is functionally unable to leave the house. They are good kids, but they suffer terribly due to their genetic defects. Who will care for them when I am no longer able? Their useless father has abandoned them. I applaud you for your efforts. I wish I had met you 20 years ago. A lot of suffering might have been avoided. Anonymous Mother, PhD ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 12:51 PM MANY THANKS for your excellent blog on Eugenics! I have been a firm believer in Eugenics for decades, and I fully support your amazing efforts to rehabilitate this Science, which will play an ESSENTIAL ROLE in the betterment of Humanity. We must END once and for all the BIG LIE of « Human equality »! This evil lie has done IMMENSE HARM to all Human groups, most especially White Europeans, whose average genetical quality today is APPALLING, compared to that of their great Ancestors!… Please keep up the good work in favor of Eugenics: I will always support courageous people like you Many thanks again for your great blog! Sincerely Yours, M L ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 8:02 PM I applaud your courageous efforts in the face of narrow-minded criticism to further the cause of human betterment. Please keep up the good work and ignore the hate mail from ignorant people! L. A. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ May 1, 2013 I would like to thank you for this website. It is absolutely fascinating. I am simply terrified of dysgenics. We are staring down the barrel of civilizational collapse. And no one is doing anything about it. This is doubly so because of the horrific animal abuse committed daily in factory farms. High IQ promotes empathy and low tribalism, so the lowering of IQ through dysgenics will perpetuate this monstrous line of w What can I do to help? You mention Pioneer in previous emails, but they've folded. Donate to the Ulster Institute, perhaps? Thanks Editor's note: The Pioneer Fund is alive and well! Please see "How Can I Help?" for details on how to donate. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ February 27, 2007 Hello there, I have visited your Eugenics website and I must say it is excellent. It is very in depth and it says things that the majority of those sites run by simplistic lemmings will not say. I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of eugenics. I have went through hell and back over the choices of my parents. I have numerous genetic defects. First and foremost, I have a condition called hidradenitis supurativa which causes scarring boils with severe pain to appear in the armpits and the groin. These lesions smell, leak and there's no cure only management as the condition will definitely recur. I am plagued by the scarring and I am very much ashamed of my body. The condition causes such severe pain that I once thought about killing myself. I have had painful surgery only for the condition to recur. It first began when I was about 13 years old and since modern medicine could only give me expensive antibiotics which ruined my immune system and helped none, I turned to alternative medicine. I am going better now thanks to my own ingenuity but because of the condition, I decided when I was 16 not to have children. Since I was about 2 years old I've had severe allergies and asthma problems. Some of my first memories are of caregivers jamming nasty smelling and tasting steroidal nasal sprays up my nose when I was in a high chair. I have endured surgery, countless years of allergy shots, countless emergency room visits, years of nasty tasting and smelling steroidal nasal sprays that stunted my growth and could cause me cataracts in the future. I never could run and play with the other kids. I missed countless days of school. I took inhalers which also were steroidal and messed up my height potential. Even to this day, I have constant breath issues and a nasty taste in my mouth so that I cannot enjoy my meals. I cannot sleep due to the constant stuffiness and my school performance has greatly suffered due to my lack of sleep. This lack of sleep has me crabby a lot of the times and also has lowered my resistance to infection. I am stuck paying high fees for medicines and doctors to control the issue (just go to http://www.walgreens.com and look up the drugs Nasonex, Singulair and Zyrtec if you don't believe me.) The drugs also contribute to my tiredness. I am a walking zombie. And the drugs still do not help much with the allergy symptoms. Also, another genetic issue is my weight. I don't eat much and I never have. I exercise faithfully everyday for at least 30-45 minutes in my proper target heart rate zone and I still am overweight. I remember times when I have exercised for 2-3 hours a day and fasted and I still wouldn't lose. I've been fat every since I could remember and I was taunted by the jeering and tactlessness of my peers and adults alike. Members of my own family taunted me because of my weight issue. I was going to weight counselors at hospitals by the time I was 4 years old. I've been taking diet pills since the age of 11-12 (paid for by my mother at the time). I have done everything from Slim Fast to actual fasting to infinity and still remain overweight. Don't let the media brainwash you--if all it takes to be a slender healthy weight is eating less and moving more (as the lemmings croak), then everyone who wanted to be slim would be slim. Look at the numbers...the majority of people who actually do outsmart their genes and lose weight will gain it right back with interest. You cannot fight your genes. They are too powerful. Prevention is the only option. In addition to this, I have jaw and tooth alignment issues that years of braces and appliances and headgear wouldn't correct all the way. I can look right at my family tree and see all of these problems staring me right back in the face. I inherited them from my parents, mainly my father and his side of the family. The only good genetic trait that I have is my intelligence but I'm not having kids because the bitter with the sweet will get passed on and I don't have the right to pass onto others what I don't want myself. My father also has major retardation and mental illness on his side of the family and I thank God I didn't inherit that one thing from him. If it were just one or two genetic issues, I could deal more but oftentimes it gets overwhelming. You have to be careful who you have kids with as their health and whether they are a burden or not on society's pocketbook depends on it. You have to look at the amount of genetic problems a person has and whether or not your family has the same issues before you have kids. People only take genetic flaws seriously when the child is on a ventilator. People don't even look at the "functioning" genetic problems that people like me have. No, you have to have severe hemophilia or be retarded before they take heed and even then they don't go the eugenics way even though it is the most sensible way. I want you all to continue preaching the truth for it shall set all of us free! ~Kay P.S. You have my full permission to use my letter. The truth must be heard. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ April 5, 2004 Eugenics is a great idea. All we have to do is figure out a way to kill off all those inferior types now that our beloved Fuehrer is gone--just kidding! My sense of humor gets a little macabre at times. The Nazis did forcibly sterilize a lot of people who were retarded, mentally ill, severe alcoholics, or with other problems (we Americans also forcibly sterilized about 100,000 of our citizens, and Sweden kept forcibly sterilizing its defective citizens until the 1970's--social democracy is pure evil, I tell you), but the Nazis' killings of various unfortunate persons, such as people who were permanently hospitalized, were done for economic reasons. Now that we know what economics leads to, I can't believe that economics and accounting are still taught in our colleges. The discredited pseudo-sciences of economics and accouting are proven slippery slopes to mass murder, world war, genocide, and, ultimately and worst of all THE HOLOCAUST. Economists and accountants are just pure evil. They're closet Nazis for sure. No decent, respectable person would have anything to do with tainted eccentricities like economics and accounting. If this sounds a little nutty, remember it's the "reasoning" that typically lies behind kneejerk denunciations of "eugenics," but this reasoning applies much better to economics and accounting than it does to eugenics. So when people find out that the Nazi executions of incompetent persons that they attribute to eugenics was really motivated by economics and accounting, why don't they shift their sense of horror and repulsion from eugenics to economics and accounting? And then there were the notorious experiments of Dr. Mengele--a brilliant physician, but clearly high on psychopathy (which is not at all unusual for creative scientists); these inhuman experiments were not motivated by eugenics either, but by medical research. Medical science is evil! End it now! It can only lead to THE HOLOCAUST! Okay, enough sarcasm. If people think eugenics is scary, try presenting the evidence for *dysgenics* to them. As if increasing rates of disease, obesity, etc. were not enough, it appears clear that the genes for intelligence must also be declining. Fortunately (in a perverse sort of way) peoples around the world (and even within the borders of the same country many times) have widely varying IQ's. For the moment, it doesn't matter whether Unfortunately, people come to this topic with a strong bias in favor of environmental determinism. In most people's minds, the default explanation for human differences, consciously or unconsciously, is not the sensible "genes plus environment," but "environment alone until proven otherwise," which is just as silly as "genes alone until proven otherwise." Yet hardly anyone believes this second silliness (contrary to what one may hear from various ignoramuses), yet hundreds of millions, maybe even billions, believe the first silliness. The good news is that there's a vast amount of data that supports a large role for genes in most human behaviors, abilities, and other traits. The bad news is that people have a lot to learn, and a lot of faulty assumptions to unlearn, and this takes time and, alas, a certain amount of effort. ~Alypius ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ August 3, 2005 Dear Sir or Ma'am: I have just discovered eugenics, and I have found something that summarizes the feelings I've had for years. I'm very interested in this subject and wish to learn more. I wish this movement was still going strong, because it makes so much sense. My top complaints about our society include people having too many children who can't care for them, my taxpayer money funding programs for these types of people, and the media's portrayal of whites as the "bad people" and a dying race. I often wonder if, had people been able to see into America's future from, say, the 1920's, if things would have turned out the way they did. I don't know where things got so turned around, but it's truly unbelievable. It makes me sad to see the country that my family helped to build turning into such a mess. My ancestors arrived here in the 1700s from England, and I am extremely proud of their accomplishments and my link to such amazing people. I often wish I had been born several generations ago (I'm 30) so I could have avoided many of the social ills that now plague us. I live in Miami, and am constantly being reminded that my culture is "dead", I'm not anything special because I'm not of a mixed race or Hispanic, and that it's just not "cool" to be white. I have even had my education mocked in job interviews. I've been told, "Why did you bother going to college? Trade school would have been a better choice. You wasted four years." Incredible. Apparently these days, education isn't given the high priority it deserves. Thank you for providing your website, which I will be reading in depth, and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. Sincerely, Sarah ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Dear Future Generations: The last large group of institutional Eugenicists were the Nazis. They didn't survive very long. From that I must conclude that belief in Eugenics is a maladaptive trait resulting from inferior genes. In that regard, by your own paradigm, you folks should be the first to be euthanized so as to eliminate from the Human gene pool those particular highly antisocial genes which you apparently possess. Removal of your patently antisocial genes from the Human gene pool would be a very good first, last and final process of applied Eugenics. Your next historical example and object lesson shall be the current self-destruction of Israel, which like the Nazis were, is also composed largely of a small group of people who are gravely mistaken in the belief that somehow they are superior to other Humans. Here are some philosophical terms and concepts you need to study and learn about, so as to relieve your ignorance. I suggest you do it before it is too late for you. -altruism. Everyone born has something to offer. If your goal is to prevent unwanted birth defects, there exist plenty of opportunities to educate the medically ignorant on ways to avoid pregnancy with an unsuitable mate. But if that were to succeed, doctors would be much the poorer as a result, and we all know the AMA can't have that, can they? Sincerely, Tom Lowe ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ October 16, 2004 I can't believe people like you still exist in the world, hopefully by your case for Eugenics, if you're what you perceive as being 'Intelligent' types such as yourself will be bred out by the 'dysgenics' of the world. I'd still prefer someone that I could relate to not based on a number from a test, but in terms of views and acceptance - to any person claiming to be 'intelligent.' It's the year 2004, the world doesn't need people who believe in sterilizing others for the sake of humanity, or what ever bullshit you believe it's for, we need people who don't slander others, and who believe that everyone should have the right to equality. You're the only f*cking dysgenic in the world. By the way, I scored 116 on an IQ test, it doesn't mean shit. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ July 20, 2004 Even before I knew that the idea of eugenics existed, I knew that it wasn't a good idea for people like me to breed. I have "depression with psychosis." It's genetic. My dad hears voices, my sister is paranoid-schitzophrenic, and my mom is a "neurotic narcissicist." On top of that, diseases like cancer and heart disease run rampant on both sides of the family. I'm not even a pretty person. It's bad when six-year-olds yell "hey ugly girl" at you when you're taking a jog around the neighborhood. I know it would be unfair to let my genes spread, allowing myself to make descendants who suffer like me. I don't want them to experience the things I do, like seeing and hearing things, or to be like my sister, who is highly obsessed with "catching" the "spies" who are "out to get" her--for instance she covers up the vents in her room because she thinks people watch her through them. However, it's too bad that my genius IQ won't be passed on. I found out about eugenics from a History Channel program which portrayed eugenics as something only "evil Nazis" believe in. But that didn't sway me from my beliefs. I was happy when I found out from the internet that other people believe the same way that I do. Kittie P.S. If you happen to put this on your letters page, please don't display my e-mail address. Thank you. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Hello, I think I agree that the world is dumbing down. The Flynn Effect is not, however, a barrier to this thesis. The Effect disappears when one realizes that its problematic conclusion follows merely from asking the wrong question. As Flynn presents it, the question is whether the mean IQ of later populations is greater than the mean of earlier ones--which is to say, whether you or I, if dropped in our present state among test-takers of the past, would be able to up our percentile rank among the ancient plodders. And the obvious and correct answer to this wrong question is that it should be and we would but that doesn't tell us anything worth knowing because each generation can only devise tests according to cues given the neural circuitry by the education, materials, and circumstance of the life of its time; and if the life of its time is more adjusted to, or more difficult with respect to, certain problems (however petty) the Of course, with respect to a Jefferson and those others who do or have done (as opposed to those who merely talk about it), "the pudding" (as in "the proof") always trumps any IQ test. In other words, if I prove the Riemann Conjecture all other tests of my math ability become irelevant. Therefore, while it may well be true that a knowledgeable physicist of today could explain certain things to Isaac Newton, the Flynn effect readjustment of Newton's intelligence downward is idiotic, to put it mildly. No, my own strongly held opinion is that people are indeed getting stupider. Recently I had occasion to remark upon how glad I was to get out of junior high fifty years ago. But then, it all seems like junior high today, and the idiots I despised then are running the world. (At least, they are giving us the news.) Here is a subject that I opine may well be connected to the dumbing of the species: the ballistics of the human brain. Have you perhaps noticed that very few persons today can speak even a single sentence without a continual jerking of the brain container. I would be interested in the neuropsychiatry of this phenomenom, which is self-evident in modern movies, almost absent in old movies, and positively correlates, I would guess, with stupidity. Regards, Michael O'Hair ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥
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