I’m really missing the clapping reaction emoji for this one, so here’s three of them to make up for only giving that post a heart.
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It’s the first of May, why am I not standing on the balcony of the Lenin Mausoleum, waving at my ICBMs as they are paraded on the square?
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If you ask me, this is why Darwin got popular in the first place back then. At a time when science and technology started chipping away at concepts like God-given entitlements, the misinterpretation of “survival of the fittest” gave the ruling classes a scientific reason handy excuse for leaving the imbalances of power and prosperity just as they were.
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Hmm, I wonder. There were already a variety of ideas in both biology and sociology around his time that are not talked about so much now because they didn’t end up advancing the science, but became important contributions to poisonous things like scientific racism and eugenics. It seems maybe notable that the phrase “survival of the fittest” is not from Darwin but Herbert Spencer, whose views on evolutionary and social progress were not really based much on Darwin’s work at all.
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Yes. Herbert Spencer was a proto fanboi of the worst kind, and the phrase wasn’t in The Origin of Species until the 8th or 9th print, IIRC.
But the general point still stands, and the way “science-based” racism, eugenics, phrenology, IQ tests, what have you, were either used and/or outright invented to keep down the unwashed masses rather supports it.
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Throwing Free Little Libraries under the bus, and causing PTSD flashbacks….I hope that’s a young artist who is simply ignorant, as opposed to someone who means to cause harm.
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