The State of Eugenics
The subject of eugenics splits contemporary opinion into two opposing camps. The first being those that consider it a categorical evil. This is the pervading grouping of our epoch and is an opinion rarely arrived at following independently. The reason for this being that this first position is the default of the current zeitgeist. There is a view that such practices are irrevocably connected with the German Reich of the mid-century. This is despite the fact that arguably many 'allied' countries have overtly eugenic laws before and well past the end of the associated war. Any utterance on the subject of eugenics, currently, invokes the charge of bigotry at best or a suspicion of führer fandom at worst.
The other camp is the minority, opposed to the liberal entrapment of even the mere eugenical concepts. This grouping wish to 'liberate' the potential of human stock from the shackles of an unthinking globalist fungibility in regards to the human race. People who think along these lines are often, at the very least in their own opinion, the type of human being who should be positively encouraged. High-status, left-brained, conscientious, liberal (ironically) and citizen's of 1st world nations. Unsurprisingly, these types of people are often alarmed at the sight of their genetically dialectical opposition overwhelming their nations. This concern is founded, there is a concerted effort to overwhelm and debase any potential breeding stock which might have the capacity to think for themselves or organize resistance. This is not a bug of globalism, this is a feature. This group knows they are under a metaphysical threat, particularly when it comes to themselves (and people like them) having the ability to live historically. The impulse for this minority is to dress eugenics in a polo shirt and give it a clean haircut. Their rebellion is to be the only couple among their 'elite' peers to have more than two children. This group are still ultimately liberal, they hate the suggestion that they might be racist and insist they merely want what is best for all of humanity. This second group who are aiming at a eugenicist revival ("eugenics is good actually") are well-intentioned, but mistaken.
Eugenics, never went away. We cannot help but practice both positive and negative eugenics any less than we can stop respiring the air of the planet. Throughout the 20th century, the toys of state eugenics were put away. Despite of this de jure prohibition, individuals, communities, and free markets never stopped thinking and planning eugenically. Consider the following: Has the repeal of 'feeble-minded' laws made the 'feeble-minded' more sexually desirable?
Just because the state isn't subsidizing the proliferation of high-IQ babies or prohibiting those considered disabled from reproducing doesn't mean that the associated dynamics aren't occurring regardless through less overt mechanisms. Inadvertently, although not in an explicitly dysgenic way, access to welfare encourages the traits that one might associate with those accessing welfare. Another example is that global business has no care for the genetic makeup of its customers, however the availability of cheap calorific food has allowed previously unviable human populations to survive in the recent century. To give a final example of inadvertent negative eugenics, on a societal level materialism has completely hypnotized the middle-classes of 1st world nations into considering the mess and inconvenience caused by an infant as if it where some kind of worldly investment or household appliance.
To summarize, despite the two strains of thought which dominate the zeitgeist in regards to eugenics (the moralistic liberal and the eugenical revivalist), our entire framework is blind to our predicament. Practically speaking, the existence the human species inhabits is not one which allows us the ability to opt-in or opt-out of eugenical practice. The truth is actually one of eugenical realism, everything we do or neglect to do has a direct or indirect effect on the outcomes in breeding stock and the viability of populations. If we wish to escape our ignorance and stifling moralism in regards to the actual situation the human races find themselves within then this admission of eugenical realism must be our first.