Saturday, August 16, 2014
Heredity and Election
Nietzsche's specific example of Experimentation--Eugenicism--is fatefully distorted by the Nazis. For, while their ideal is 'racially pure', the means to which is inbreeding, Nietzsche's is a comprehensive type, the means to which is miscegenation. Now, he likely did not consider one potential Democratic benefit of the latter--the elimination of ethnic antagonism. Also, he seems not to have recognized the replacement of reproductive processes typically interpreted either as 'natural', or as 'random', with artefactual ones, as a clue to the essential innovation in the American experiment--the institution of electoral procedures to replace heredity as the primary determinant of succession.
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