But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. ↗
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. ↗
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ↗
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. ↗