A strange part of the strange life of Jeffrey Epstein was his obsession with the genome. And with ways to "improve" that genome-including by adding more of his own genes to humanity's gene pool. Epstein, culpable for so much, was also a believer in eugenics, the manipulation of reproduction and of genes to create "better" humans.
The newly released documents from the Justice Department shine additional light on how the convicted child sex criminal exhibited a fascination with transhumanism, a controversial movement in science and philosophy with a eugenicist mission: using cutting edge technology, including genetic engineering and AI, to advance the biology of the human race. They also reinforce how serious Epstein was about pursuing these ideas.
Anyone who is under psychiatric care, or loves someone who is, may want to read the book The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today, by Susanne Paola Antonetta. If you care about history, particularly the history of eugenics, you may be interested as well. The book may offer us more respect for the mind, for consciousness, and its diversity.
Kennedy's myopic emphasis on personal responsibility as the main driver of health means he's at best indifferent, and at worst welcoming, of the idea that those that don't heed his counsel might die.
Malcolm and Simone Collins are promoting pro-natalism with a controversial eugenicist agenda, aiming to increase American birth rates while cultivating their own 'genetically superior' children.
