#domestic

The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One of the most important Nazi ideologists, R.W. Darré, made clear the relationship between gardening and genocide: “He who leaves the plants in a garden to themselves will soon find to his surprise that the garden is overgrown by weeds and that even the basic character of the plants has changed. If therefore the garden is to remain the breeding ground for the plants, if, in other words, it is to lift itself above the harsh rule of natural forces, then the forming will of a gardener is necessary, a gardener who, by providing suitable conditions for growing, or by keeping harmful influences away, or by both together, carefully tends what needs tending and ruthlessly eliminates the weeds which would deprive the better plants of nutrition, air, light, and sun. . . . Thus we are facing the realization that questions of breeding are not trivial for political thought, but that they have to be at the center of all considerations, and that their answers must follow from the spiritual, from the ideological attitude of a people. We must even assert that a people can only reach spiritual and moral equilibrium if a well-conceived breeding plan stands at the very center of its culture. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#domestication #gardening #nazism #weeds #attitude

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#domesticating #human-nature #humanity #morality #nature

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#cotton #domestic #education #had #leave

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#keep #like #media #powers #sheep

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#claustrophobic #domestic #domestic life #domesticated #find

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. ↗

— James Iha

#dog #domestic #friends #go #grocery

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#close #defense #domestic #economic #energy

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#care #congress #deliver #domestic #everyone

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic