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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

LWer: Heritage Foundation has some good ideas but they're not enough into eugenics for my taste

This is completely opposed to the Nietzschean worldview, which looks toward the next stage in human evolution, the Overman. The conservative demands the freezing of evolution and progress, the sacralization of the peasant in his state of nature, pregnancy, nursing, throwing up. “Perfection” the conservative puts in scare quotes, he wants the whole concept to disappear, replaced by a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior. Perhaps it’s because he fears a society looking toward the future will leave him behind. Or perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak, for, as Jesus said, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In his glorification of the “natural ecology of the family,” the conservative fails even by his own logic, as in the state of nature, parents allow sick offspring to die to save resources for the healthy. This was the case in the animal kingdom and among our peasant ancestors.

Some young, BASED Rightists like eugenics, and think the only reason conservatives don’t is that liberals brainwashed them that it’s evil. As more and more taboos erode, yet the one against eugenics remains, it becomes clear that dysgenics is not incidental to conservatism, but driven by the ideology itself, its neuroticism about the human body and hatred of the superior.

[–] rook@awful.systems 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

the conservative… wants… a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior.

perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak

Which conservatives are these. This is just a libertarian fantasy, isn’t it.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I had to do a triple take on that "won't deem anyone inferior" like what the fuck are you talking about. The core of conservatism is the belief in rigid hierarchies! Hierarchies have superiors and inferiors by definition!

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That depends on if you consider the "inferior" to be human, if they're even still alive after the eugenics part.

[–] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

the overman¹

¹better known by it's german name

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago

Technically superman is a more correct translation for that word (similarly to how superscript is the thing beyond the script)