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I should watch that again
it is an amazing movie and great thought experiment
I don't think it did super-well at the box office, but I think everyone who was around back then still remembers the name of the film
I read that H.G. Wells was a eugenicist. I wonder what exactly his views were because there's such a range, all the way from scientific racism and utterly evil ideas all the way to commonly practiced and obviously wholesome ideas.
But it seems most people just want to say all of eugenics is the obviously evil stuff
Wells did seem like quite a pro-leviathan guy
My english teacher a while back tried to say that all of eugenics was based in phrenology.
which is profoundly ignorant of eugenics
pro-leviathan?
what's that?
mm, I might have misused the term, gimme a sec to dig out the right book
At the very least he was more a proponent of the benevolent dictator
or a group of smart people making the decisions for everyone else
(sounds familiar)
*National Anthem of USSR plays*
Weird to think he was a Fabian for a while
Not so weird that he left them because they weren't imaginative enough for him
actually
*rummages*
Hobbs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_H.G._Wells
His most consistent political ideal was the World State. He stated in his autobiography that from 1900 onward he considered a World State inevitable. He envisioned the state to be a planned society that would advance science, end nationalism, and allow people to progress by merit rather than birth. Wells's 1928 book The Open Conspiracy argued that groups of campaigners should begin advocating for a "world commonwealth", governed by a scientific elite, that would work to eliminate problems such as poverty and warfare.
In 1932, he told Young Liberals at the University of Oxford that progressive leaders must become liberal fascists or enlightened Nazis who would "compete in their enthusiasm and self-sacrifice" against the advocates of dictatorship. In 1940, Wells published a book called The New World Order that outlined his plan as to how a World Government would be set up. In The New World Order, Wells admitted that the establishment of such a government could take a long time, and be created in a piecemeal fashion.
the book the leviathan?
indeed
oh man
HG Wells is all over the map
love his books
I can see Alex Jones inviting him on
hp lovecraft
And also chastisting him
reaps has accended
congrats!!!
but yea hp lovecraft is my favorite
whilst talking about HG Wells, hmm
nonetheless, HG Wells is a great example of how difficult it can be to nail someone down to one set of political beliefs
Then again, late-19th/early-20th century was full of political ideas being tried out
for sure
one of my other favorites
Starship Troopers?
*clicks*
yup