09-17-2019, 10:52 PM
(08-14-2019, 08:37 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(08-02-2019, 11:53 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Before anyone shows any sympathy for plans to breed any 'super race', let me remind you that many of the profoundest achievers in their fields come from very ordinary backgrounds.
Yeah, but not everyone from a small background becomes a Beethoven.
...or an Edison. or a Goethe. or a Hokusai.
Lots of people from small backgrounds of little talent become farm laborers... we do need food.
Let me tell you something else. There are good people in every social class. Also -- no matter how sophisticated our technology and refined our culture, we still need food.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.