No, it’s not about them
I don’t know what the prefix “eu” means, but I think it might be greek. It seems to be used for something that’s good like “euphoria”, that’s good isn’t it? Well, no, not always. It’s a long story, but many years ago I “suffered” a bout of euphoria that would not go away. Well, it’s great at first, who wouldn’t enjoy that? But after a while it became a bit embarrassing, people saying “what you smiling at?”. This only applied realy to people who had known the miserable old me as strangers just assumed I was a jolly good fellow.
A dentist told me he thought I may have a brain tumor!!! They used to be “mister” then they became “doctor” and got big headed.
It had come overnight, with no “by your leave”, and yes, it was pretty nice. But after a while it got tedious and also exhausting. It was like manic depression where people get mood swings but without the depression. I did try looking on the internet, but couldn’t find anything. ( btw I have had low cholesterol all my life, and tried to get info on that but all I got was advice on how to lower my cholesterol . Fat lot of use that ). But I digress. Rest assured after a few months I did manage to return to normal, but I still have low cholesterol.
Right. the “eu” prefix is when they are trying to sell you on something good, like “euphoria” or “euthanasia” or “European Union” ( I didn’t vote btw ). And “eugenics”.
It’s a movement that promoted selective breeding of human beings. This was to get rid of some inherited diseases, or to improve the human race by only good looking people or really smart people could breed. I never understood all the details, but you can see how it may be a “good thing”. It was started by the greeks , but got really popular in the 1920’s. People like George Bernard Shaw and Adolphe Hitler. It was quite a respectable point of view until Hitler got involved then it was mostly thought of as a “bad thing”.
It’s a fact, I think, that most modern farm animals are very different from the mark one version. Maybe the
prehistoric cow had tiny udders and thin milk. Roll on a few hundred generations an “Voilà!” gold top milk. Skinny pigs become “Danishhhhhh”. And so on. The modern border collie was whipped up in just a few hundred years, now they are as smart as a pin.
Aldous Huxley wrote “Brave New World”, ( as did Billy Shakespeare ), about a dystopian future where people were put into different classes. Alpha, beta etc. I can see people in the bottom classes objecting to eugenics, who wants to be in the bottom class? Huxley also wrote “Island”, which is about a Utopia, ( should be Eutopia shouldn’t it? ). And another thing, if two smart people get married and have a child the sprog is likely to be less intelligent than its parents. If two dullards do the same then the kid is smarter, thus increasing the average IQ of the race. Maybe that’s why eugenics never took off.
Anyway, I’ve pretty much posted what I intended to. A bit of a first eh?
