{"article":{"id":14793,"heading":"Epidemics of \"Social Darwinism\" in America","author":"Vigdor Schreibman","created":"2002-02-10 04:55:24","modified":"2005-08-15 00:53:34","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:53:34","article":"<p>Epidemics of \"Social Darwinism\" in America\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n   \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n      \r\n\r\n\r\nCyberspaceCapital<br><br>\r\n\r\nFriday, 8 February 2002; 12:00 PM EST<br><br>\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nEpidemics of \"Social Darwinism\" in America<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The racist prescription for perfecting the human race, which is presently\r\nhaving a major revival, is the doctrine of \"survival of the \r\nfittest\" guided by the ethic of \"Social Darwinism\"!  That is the \r\ntheory that helped produce the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews, \r\nas well as other minorities and political dissidents were murdered \r\nby the Nazis. The Nazi era danger of \r\npolice failure to protect citizen rights, far from over-stating the situation \r\nat hand, is the very reason given by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, for a new \r\nagent training program that was released to the press Friday, June 30, 2000.<\/p>  \r\n\r\n<p>Police protection aside, \"Social Darwinism\" and the rule of \r\ncapitalist power guided by a philosophy of greed, are also public \r\npolicy problems in other specific areas of American society and culture. \r\nThese patterns, some of which involve direct police participation or\r\nguidance, are the following:<\/p><ul>\r\n\r\n<li>The expected \r\nbiological diversity crash, involving \"mass extinction\" of plants and \r\nanimals that is now underway, posing a major threat to humans in the 21st-century ;<br><br> \r\n\r\n<\/li><li>An \r\nepidemic of youth violence in America, which is officially blamed on \r\n\"family problems\" but is likely caused in significant part according massive research\r\nstudies conducted over the last five decades, by the heavy repeated examples of \r\nviolence in\r\nentertainment, along with violence in\r\ntelevision broadcasting, which as one expert has explained, train children \r\nhow to kill their classmates, teachers, and anyone else who gets in the way ;<\/li><br><br>\r\n\r\n<li>An epidemic of \r\ndeath by medical errors in America, the leading cause of which is undue \r\ndelay of necessary treatment ;<\/li><br><br>\r\n\r\n<li>An epidemic of \r\ndeath by suicide in America, the causes of which \r\nremain uninvestigated (hidden under the cover of silence), although \r\nexperts say the likely causes are social pressures, also known as\r\nassassination by suicide ;<\/li><br><br>\r\n\r\n<li>Big business and the elite educational institutions that help to\r\ndesign their strategies are engaged in the \r\nguided evolution of e-culture by an ethic of centralized control and greed.\r\nThis could habituate the public to an irrecoverable, debilitating pattern \r\nusing the sophisticated techniques of game theory and equilibrium selection \r\nmade famous by the man with \"A Beautiful Mind,\" John F. Nash, Jr., who \r\nwon the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics after recovering from a 30-year fall \r\ninto chronic schizophrenia.<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p><i>CyberspaceCapital<\/i> has posted two essays that help to clarify these dangers\r\nand alternative strategies that can overcome them:<\/p><ol>\r\n\r\n<li>\r\nCorrupted by Fear, written by Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize \r\nLaureate, explains how fear of the structures of tyranny is itself the primary \r\nproblem giving rise to corrupt political power.<\/li><br><br>\r\n \r\n<li>\r\nAssassination by Suicide: I. The betrayal of capitalism, written by Vigdor\r\nSchreibman, is a personal odyssey involving the current problems of \"Social Darwinism\"\r\nthat have all but destroyed his life.  <\/li><ol>\r\n<br><br>\r\n<hr size=\"2\">\r\n\r\n<p>Federal Information News Syndicate, Vigdor Schreibman, Editor\r\n&amp; Publisher,<br>\r\n18 - 9th Street NE #206, On Capitol Hill, Washington, DC\r\n20002-6042. Copyright 2002 FINS.<br>\r\nIntegrated Phone\/Fax\/Voice Mail: (202) 547-8715; Email:\r\nVigdor@cyberspacecapital.org<br>\r\nBrowse Fins Global Information Age Library at URL:\r\nhttp:\/\/sunsite.utk.edu\/FINS\/<br>\r\nBrowse CyberspaceCapital at URL: http:\/\/cyberspacecapital.org<br>\r\nRepublication authorized for nonprofit use only, provided message\r\nis kept intact.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr size=\"2\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/ol><\/ol>\n","contact":"Vigdor@cyberspacecapital.org","link":"http:\/\/cyberspacecapital.org\/dialogue\/darwinismA.htm","address":"18 - 9th Street NE Apt #206, Washington, DC 20002-6042","phone":"1-202-547-8715","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"The racist prescription for perfecting the human race, which is presently having a major revival, is the doctrine of \"survival of the fittest\" guided by the ethic of \"Social Darwinism\"!  In this story the author points to epidemics of this racist idea now at work in America and what can be done to overcome the problem.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2002\/02\/epidemics_.html","filesize":"5.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2002\/02\/14793.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}