The Nomadic Alternative – Page 13

*Note: The relation of dog breeding to human eugenics was clearly articulated by Konrad Lorenz in a wartime racist rant entitled Die angeborenen Formen möglicher Erfahrung (The Innate Forms of Possible Experience) in Zeitsch. f. Tierpsychologie, bd. 5, heft. 2, 1943, pp. 235-409 where the stunted ‘amoral’ haustier(in this case an Old English Bulldog) is compared unfavourably with the wolf, the ‘moral’ wild form. A similar comparison between naturally psychopathic Basenjis and Shetland sheepdogs “loyal and true to death” is thought by H.J. Eysenck to shed light on possible differences of intelligence between negroes and whites. See Race, Intelligence and Education, London, 1971, pp. 73-4. Eysenck also believes that refrigerators and other industrial glories are the result of superior intelligence (p._ ), thus suggesting where his thesis might be applied to “the evolution of a political framework in which allows industry and commerce to play their part ….”

bred for intelligence, some for companionship, some for agility, some for aggressiveness and some for brute strength. Modern civilized man is the latest triumph of human eugenics, and civilized conditions have affected his genetic constitution and modified his patterns of behaviour. Uncivilized peoples are less intelligent, therefore less suited to progress. It becomes the moral duty of the progressive first to boost the intelligence of the inferior, but if that fails to protect his civilization from mongrelism.

Till recently modern civilization had been synonymous with white civilization; and the origins of the fatuous argument go back to the Comte de Gobineau’s Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, which he wrote as a riposte to Rousseau’s essay on the Origins of Inequality among Men. For Rousseau the problem of inequality was economic; for Gobineau it was biological. “The white race”, he wrote, “originally possessed a monopoly of beauty, intelligence and strength. By its union with other varieties hybrids were created, which were beautiful without strength, strong without intelligence, or if intelligent both weak and ugly.” The whole disastrous course of modern racism has depended on this style of thought, the principle being to relegate an economic rival or troublesome minority to the status of a sub-species, which then deserves – and gets – treatment as an animal.

And by pursuing this line of argument further, the racial hygenists manage to justify a sort of Neo-Barbarism to safeguard civilization from the overcivilized. Prolonged inbreeding, the