• Echolynx@lemmy.zip
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      17 hours ago

      Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.

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        It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.

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      10 hours ago

      That doesn’t seem right. Expansionism started way before that.

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      14 hours ago

      And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.