Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life and works. That is the great debate of nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment, Shockley vs. the sane world. For, throughout Wells's works, there is a recurring pattern of ideas which centers around the stark determinism of Darwinian evolution, the possible effects it may have if inferior men continue to breed, and the need for an enlightened (ie. genetically superior) elite to rule the world. This pattern looms large in H.G. Wells, an enlightening--if limited--new biography by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie...
...natural selection would eventually separate the weak and the strong into two distinct classes. The powerful class would oppressively dominate the subservient one, using it for whatever means it wished. This theme is best seen in The Time Machine, where the cave-dwelling Morlocks lord over the gentle, but inferior Eloi. The War of the Worlds reflects a different kind of Darwinism, where the Martians kill off the "weak and the silly," leaving the earth to begin again, ruled by the strong. The MacKenzies are sensitive enough to perceive Wells's frustrated attempts to synthesize evolution and entropy into apocalypse...
...with what look and sound like $20 speakers. Sound from a stereo can only be as good as the signal from the weakest component in the system; it's a waste of money to get decent sound through all those transistors and capacitors in the amplifier only to allow inferior speakers to mangle it. Also, ignore everything the brochures and salesmen tell you about these systems. At this price range the statistics are meaningless--shop around for an afternoon or two and buy whatever sounds best...
...decade ventured into the fields of biology and genetics, disciplines in which he is not an acknowledged expert, to propound a theory he labels dysgenics. He defines it as "retrogressive evolution through the disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged." One of its controversial contentions is that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intellectual capacity. Another is that bonuses should be paid to persons with less than an average IQ who are voluntarily sterilized...
...turn themselves and their friends into case studies, into role models, or even into interesting people, which they are not. The Gospel According to The Harvard Business School, dealing with the Harvard Business School from September 1968 to June 1970 is really nothing more than a strike book, an inferior version of Push Comes to Shove (as if Kelman's book were not bad enough), too out of date, even more pretentious, and outrageously overpriced--but maybe he learned something from the Business School...