Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now—You Betcha It’s Still Happening

Psychiatric Eugenics

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana)

The Santayana passage with which this article begins is a compelling reminder of the enormous importance of history. We forget societal developments of the past to our peril. What this article particularly invites you to remember is psychiatric and psychiatrically driven eugenics. What makes the Santayana quote particularly tricky when it comes to the subject of this article is that while most people are at least somewhat aware that psychiatry played a role in the sterilization and murder of people deemed unfit to live or to breed, this is generally not even close to the full extent of it. Moreover, in part because the psychiatric industry covers its tracks well, most are unaware that there were a great many more forms of psychiatric eugenics. Similarly, most are oblivious to the fact that psychiatric eugenics initiatives continued to exist—and beyond that, to flourish—long after the end of what is normally thought of as “the eugenics era” (roughly, late nineteen century to 1945).

The upshot? Sadly, in critical ways we are not learning from history what we direly need to learn. And we are now facing an upsurge in twenty-first century psychiatric eugenics, strangely unaware of what we are encountering—and as such, ill-equipped to counter it or even to know that we should be countering. Such is the reason for this blog.

Politics Is The Science Of Fraud

Politics Is The Science Of Fraud

Only yesterday I was thinking of providing a definition of democracy that is apt to today’s corrupt scene. Something along the lines of, “That political system wherein the government takes a percentage of your money then politicians bribe you to vote for them by poromising you personal gain from what they stole from you in the first place while secretly collecting funds from corporate sponsors to fund their election campaigns then passing legislation in the best intersts of those sponsoring corporations, not the people.”

As time goes on I am becoming more convinced that democracy, while it sounds great, is not yielding us good governance.

We need a new system where managers are promoted on their competence as measured by their products and the best managers manage the largest area, federal government.

I doubt this will happen in my lifetime, too many changes would need to occur and they would be too heavily fought by those who stand to lose power and control.