The Geneticist's Manifesto
Meanwhile, at the project offices of an important employer of experts, the Rockefeller
Foundation, friends were hearing from Max Mason, its president, that a comprehensive
national program was underway to allow, in Mason's words, "the control of human
behavior." This dazzling ambition was announced on April 11, 1933. Schooling figured
prominently in the design.
Rockefeller had been inspired by the work of Eastern European scientist Hermann Muller
to invest heavily in genetics. Muller had used x-rays to override genetic law, inducing
mutations in fruit flies. This seemed to open the door to the scientific control of life itself.
Muller preached that planned breeding would bring mankind to paradise faster than God.
His proposal received enthusiastic endorsement from the greatest scientists of the day as
well as from powerful economic interests.
Muller would win the Nobel Prize, reduce his proposal to a fifteen-hundred-word
Geneticists ' Manifesto, and watch with satisfaction as twenty-two distinguished
American and British biologists of the day signed it. The state must prepare to
consciously guide human sexual selection, said Muller. School would have to separate
worthwhile breeders from those slated for termination.
Just a few months before this report was released, an executive director of the National
Education Association announced that his organization expected "to accomplish by
education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force." You
can't get much clearer than that. WWII drove the project underground, but hardly
retarded its momentum. Following cessation of global hostilities, school became a major
domestic battleground for the scientific rationalization of social affairs through
compulsory indoctrination. Great private corporate foundations led the way.
Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword
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