576 Sterlization, for a Brighter Future
Eugenicist: Each baby, when it’s born, must donate some of his sex cells—sperm or egg—and these are put in a deep freeze, and just kept. The person leads his life, and, uh, and dies. And after he’s dead and gone, so all the heat and passion is taken out of the matter, a committee meets and studies his life.
Interviewer: During his lifetime, then, he hasn’t had any children…
Eugenicist: He’s been sterilized and hasn’t had any children in the normal way. After he’s dead and gone, the committee meets and reviews his life and asks, “Would we like to have some more people like him?”
More on the American “eugenics movement…”
(Found while browsing videos published by one of my favorite bloggers, Paleofuture)
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Now there’s a man speaking some sense: “he [Mr. Sterilized Everyman] doesn’t just get to go out and brazenly propogate…”
Ever notice how people in the past look crazier than people in the present? And why are so many doctors so clearly psychopathic freaks? This guy reminds me of my doctor in Canada, where btw, we proudly had an active eugenics program until… the 1960s, the 1970s? Would have to check the dates on that.
Comment by MC — March 23, 2008 #
Wow, it must have been nice to live in the 50s where everything was so black and white. Literally and figuratively.
Comment by Tara — March 24, 2008 #
if i’m not mistaken, that interviewer is none other than walter cronkite.
who looks like he can’t quite believe what he’s hearing.
Comment by C in Cairo — March 24, 2008 #
Ummm. “Tara,” you realize that the 1950s, I mean the original 1950s as opposed to what we see here which is just pictures of the 1950s, were in color, right? I mean, literally color, just like nowadays…
Comment by MC — March 25, 2008 #