THE CREMATION OVENS OF WWII had barely cooled before before America’s wealthy turned back to the precipitating idea, that people could learn from the world of dogs, and that mass sterilization and gas chambers might yet forge a “master race”.
While direct killing and mass sterilization of “inferior” people was now off the table, dogs were still on it.
And so, in 1940s Maine, a group of scientists built a massive facility to breed a "super-dog".
The facility was the brain child of Alan Gregg, director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Division of Medical Science, who was in charge of allocating the Foundation’s philanthropic funds.
As the BBC notes, “What he viewed as wasted expenditure on education was of particular concern to Gregg.”
See >> https://bbc.in/3TMIc0i
Right.
From the perspective of those sitting on gilded thrones in ivory towers, putting money into education of the poor made as much sense as teaching a pig to ice skate.
What’s next, civil rights?
Improving the status of women?
Good Lord man, get a grip!
The roots of this kind of thinking are deep and have always been well fertilized by the deep pockets of the rich who, surveying a world of hunger, pestilence, violence, oppression, and exploitation, always seem to deem taxation of the wealthy to be the world’s greatest evil.
As I note in “American Working Terriers,” the Reverend Thomas Malthus’ epistle on population was a push back on increasing taxes to fund schools and poor houses.
Malthus instead suggested that the poor be pushed closer together and that villages be built next to stagnant pools so that the plague and other pestilence might return to kill off the poor.
Some 135 years later, veterinarian, prolific dog author, and AKC darling Leon F. Whitney was corresponding with Adolph Hitler about Whitney’s proposal to forcibly sterilize 10 million Americans in order to get rid of those Whitney referred to, dismissively, as “morons”.
Two years later Hitler came to power, and two years after that Alexis Carrell, the French scientist who had won the 1912 Nobel Prize for medicine, published his best-selling book ‘L'Homme, Cet Inconnu’ (Man, The Unknown) which took Whitney's ideas one step further, advocating a forced eugenics system to be controlled by the state and facilitated by gas chambers -- an idea he acknowledged he got from the world of dogs.
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END NOTES for those who want to read more:
▪️The Eugenics Man and the Kennel Club >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2008/12/eugenics-man-at-kennel-club.html?
▪️The Francis Galton Dog Show >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/09/francis-galton-dog-show.html?
▪️From Bassets to Auschwitz in 50 Years >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-bassetts-to-auschwitz-in-50-years.html?
▪️Gas Chambers for Dogs… and People >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2022/03/gas-chambers-for-dogs-and-people.html?
▪️On Eugenics and Dogs, Circa 1942 >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2011/06/on-eugenics-and-dogs-circa-1942.html?
▪️Charles Galton Darwin >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2009/02/charles-galton-darwin.html?
▪️The Oldest and Most Important Debate >> https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2010/01/oldest-and-most-important-debate.html?
▪️American Working Terriers >> https://a.co/d/0hDidOpa
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