Eugenics, Dysgenics, and Body Shots

Hey baby, let me ride...

Sometimes I think were it not for my Christian upbringing, I would have evolved into some Genghis Khan type character. You know... the strong, silent type. Of course, when you are riding at the front of an angry and horny Mongol horde, and the object of your temporary affection is watching her husband and sons run for their lives - there really isn't any need to say much. This is pretty much how Genghis Khan got his women - he is famous for saying the best thing in life is to "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” Talk about a little less conversation and a lot more action! Thanks to that attitude, one out of every four men in Asia is a direct descendant of The Great Khan, and they may be all better for it. After all, the man who conquered a good bit of the known world, introduced diplomatic immunity to the world, and establised international trade practices still in use today couldn't afford to be dumb.

Making the world smarter (with my penis), one girl at a time!


Unfortunately, guys like Bill Gates, Sam Walton, or even Sir Richard Branson - corporate emperors all - didn't ravish the countryside raping every woman in sight and having hundreds of kids during the nineties. If you look at the declining birthrate in industrial nations vs. the birth rate in the Third World - you might see this as a problem. The non-ravishing that is.

All this actually came up last night, a Tuesday night, at a tequila bar in Atlanta. I was speaking with a girl from Michigan who has become a bit of a dysgenicist after 25 years in the Greater Detroit area. 8MileGirl subscribes to the idea that the Roman Empire fell because the smart and monied folks couldn't breed enough or outbreed the idiots/poor in the realm due to lead poisoning and other reasons. The lead issue has been thrown around awhile, but factors like decadence and dependence on foreign sources for soldiers and other infrastructure were the man reasons I learned the Empire fell. Nati was a classics major, so he would have a more definitive answer.

Yes, if I was in charge...

Of course all this is boring compared to (well, anything, but also) 8MileGirl's solution to the problem - sterilize the idiots. Rather than run into Nazi comparisons by making it compulsory, you offer long lasting yet temporary birth control paid for by the state (or Planned Parenthood) for free. And you would give $100 to the girls as a thank you. Since you would get murdered in the press if you went around offering birth control to only degenerates and crackwhores - you would have to make it available to everyone, including college girls who in all honesty would probably benefit society more (comparatively, of course) by getting pregnant.

All this hinges on the idea that intelligence, and the will to wield it, is hereditary. One need only turn on a TV set to know that isn't true. Conrad Hilton, a smart and industrious member of my fraternity built a hotel empire. His great-granddaughter is a racist idiot. Former President George H.W. Bush was a fighter pilot in World War II, a director of the CIA, and laid the smackdown on Saddam and Iraq with no significant loss of American life. President George W. Bush... well you get my drift. We all hope our children will be smarter than us - but even in the best of families in the best of environments - intelligence is a role of the die. You can only hope for your kids to be at least above a dropping average, and train them to make the most of it.

Even though the whole dysgenics thing is kinda dumb, one thing is for certain... If you aren't growing (as a population), you are dying. The main reason why we eat more agricultural products instead of hunted products is because farming produces more food and leaves more time for pumping out kids. Forget intelligence, raw numbers alone are alarming enough.

So while this discussion took place and I was rubbing 8MileGirl's leg, our waitress was letting her co-workers take body shots off her very slim stomach - and another girl was stripping and flashing for her friends. In a normal bar/restaurant, on a Tuesday night in ATL. And apparently every Tues night is like this. I am definitely going back. This little vignette has nothing to do with the rest of the post except for this one point... the waitress has a little girl.