I marvel at the limited cultural background that people have. I was trying to ignore the TV in the room when I heard them talking about eugenics, or at least that is what I thought I heard. It got my attention and I realized it was a commercial. What puzzled me was the joy of the actors as they discussed killing people. I guess I didn’t catch what they were talking about until they showed the bottle label at the end.
If you are not familiar with the term it was an early movement sponsored by Progressives like Margaret Sanger and Woodrow Wilson. I guess you could define it as “selective breeding to improve the human species”. It was a blatant attempt to get rid of inferior human beings. It was also racist because minorities were considered inferior and thus subject to extermination. It was part of the philosophy behind Planned Parenthood. It was the thinking behind Hitler seeking to establish the Master Race.
Not a pretty picture.
At the end of the commercial they showed the product and at that point I realized that it wasn’t eugenics, the label said Nugenix. It is some kind of product that is supposed to enhance something called “free testosterone”. In other words it is a snake oil for flabby, middle aged men. I used to be a flabby, middle aged man. Now I am a flabby, old man.
I am still not interested, but I do wish that the people who name products would pay attention in school so they would not come up with brands that sound evil.
homo unius libri
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