Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Privately, Khrushchev was reported to have made bitter personal attacks on Mao before stunned onlookers from the international Communist authoritative account, Mao attacked Khrushchev allegedly replied in kind, likening Mao's behaviour to that of Stalin, accusing him of being detached from realities of the modern world, and -- perhaps the worst crime for a true Marxist - Leninist - of ignoring the interests of world revolution for the sake of China's national concerns.

The Future of Eugenics. Eugenics, although based on the science of genetics, is not itself a science, for it must above all concern itself with social values, with the question: Whither mankind? Perhaps general agreement could be had that freedom from gross physical or mental defects and the possession of sound health, high intelligence, general adaptability, and nobility of spirit are the major goals toward which eugenics should aim; perhaps even that diversity of nature is better than uniformity of type. But how far ought selective reproduction to interfere with human freedoms? Genetically, as in other respects, "there is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us" that it is hard to assess the worth of the manifest hereditary characteristics are the product of environment, particularly for those qualities that are eugenics' major concern: sound health, high intelligence, and the like. The Jukes and Kallikaks were horrible examples of degenerate humanity, but what might they have been in a better world? Were their alcoholism, their crime, and their vice inescapable products of their genes? It seems very doubtful. Only the experiment of putting them from earliest infancy into an optimum environment--not forgetting that it need not be the same for everyone--than to modify gene frequencies by wise selection. Once mankind has produced an approximation of that optimum environment, the eugenics task will be much simpler. In fact, the natural selection exerted by such an environment may make eugenics quite unnecessary. -H. Bentley Glass Mark Ralph Rowe 3/4/2014 San Diego, CA 92102 A THEORY OF REVOLUTION By Mark Ralph Rowe A THEORY OF REVOLUTION By Mark Ralph Rowe In 1960, polemics from Peking and Moscow thinly veiled by doctrinal exegesis revealed growing disunity between the two communist giants over a range of issues covering the entire spectrum of strategy and tactics in the world revolution. Privately, Khrushchev was reported to have made bitter personal attacks on Mao before stunned onlookers from the international Communist authoritative account, Mao attacked Khrushchev allegedly replied in kind, likening Mao's behaviour to that of Stalin, accusing him of being detached from realities of the modern world, and -- perhaps the worst crime for a true Marxist Leninist - of ignoring the interests of world revolution for the sake of China's national concerns. On social perception. Social perception is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people. To learn about other people, they rely on information from their physical appearance, and verbal and nonverbal communication. They can be ways in which people communicate without words—including through facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, body position and movement, touch, and gaze Charles Darwin believed that human emotional expressions are universal—that all humans express and interpret expressions in the same way. Modern research suggests that Darwin was right, for the six major emotional expressions: anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and sadness. Current research examines whether other emotions have distinct and universal facial expressions associated with them Attributions also affect social perception. They help people make inferences about why others behave the way they do and make predictions as to how they will behave in the future Only the experiment of putting them from earliest infancy into an optimum environment--not forgetting that it need not be the same for everyone--than to modify gene frequencies by wise selection. Once mankind has produced an approximation of that optimum environment, the eugenics task will be much simpler. In fact, the natural selection exerted by such an environment may make eugenics quite unnecessary. -H. Bentley Glass

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