Tuesday, January 24, 2012

eugenics

medicine: 20 mg. Aripiprazole in the mornings.
diet: three to four meals a day
exercise: walking
weight: 136 lbs.
mood: o.k.
sleep: 8 hours

"America's eugenicists even encouraged Nazi Germany in its massive sterilisation of the mentally ill, a program that led directly to crematoriums of the Holocaust." 

Sir Francis Galton wanted to "breed more desirable...domestic animals through careful breeding practices...applied to humans..."

"...[Galton] wondered, 'Could not the race of men be similarly improved?  Could not the undesirables be got rid of and the desirables multiplied?"

(all quotes from Mad In America by Robert Whitaker)

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