Dear George,
There is a cyclic hubris to history in the refusal of an idea to roll over and play dead after it has outlived its usefulness. A concept attains fad status, flourishes, and then falls out of favor until conditions are favorable for its reappearance, sometimes hundreds of years latter. Religious bigotry is a prime example of this process. It peaked during the Reformation, was eclipsed by the Enlightenment and is now making a comeback as we force our way into the Middle East and beat back the encroachments of science upon the Divine Will.
I mention this because there is an idea that is on the cusp of making a comeback—eugenics. Eugenics is a methodology for improving racial stock through selective breeding and a thoughtful culling of the herd. Granted, the concept took quite a hit during the Holocaust. However, the problem wasn’t with the theory but with its practical application.
It’s time to bring eugenics back, but not as a vehicle for racial improvement. The emphasis must be on the improvement of the cultural stock through selective socialization and the thoughtful culling of the herd.
The neoeugenetist seeks to adapt a people to a postmodern culture by destroying their totems, trashing their culture, fragmenting their community, blotting out their past, and discrediting their elders. It is harsh work, but necessary if a culture is to bathe in civilization’s laser beam of enlightenment.
Proudly, we are seeing cultural eugenics at work right here, in the good old US of A as America is transfigured from a democratic republic into a corporist market state.
Cultural eugenic involves taking an organic whole, the community, and hammering away at its wholeness, sending fragments of it floating into a dark miasma until these fragments are reduced nucleated families that have been freed of the twin millstones of place and extended family. This hammering continues until the nuclear family, itself, is shattered into individual atoms incapable of binding with other atoms, leaving us with pure egos whose lives are empty and barren. This is marks fulfillment of the corporist state, for is it easier to market to a fragment than a whole. The fragment, having nothing, is only able to find meaning in addictive consumption as it substitutes things for meaning.
The one obstacle to the completion of this process is the ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. Found mainly in our large cities, these are the only remaining communities left in the country where the extended family is making its last stand.
In the past, the instrument that culled the herd was the gas chamber; now it is gentrification. Encourage yuppies to turn tenements into over-priced condos, and you will see the rapid disappearance of this subversive threat to the State. Where the pioneer trods, cultural genocide follows closely in his wake. This is what we call manifest destiny.
The beauty is that because a postmodern culture lacks any sense of community, it has no feel for either democracy or civil liberties. Life is good as long as the plastic isn’t maxed out and the catalogs keep showing up in the mailbox. What could the loss of a few liberties really matter to a people who long ago forgot how to be free?
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
9:21:46 PM 
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