{"id":503,"date":"2002-03-28T03:31:19","date_gmt":"2002-03-28T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/28\/eugenics-wars\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:58","slug":"eugenics-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/28\/eugenics-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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13:46:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 09:34:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:15:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 07:43:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 06:12:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 03:16:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-05 03:16:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what surprises me more &#8212; that someone in the UK is writing an article that appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2002\/03\/10\/do1007.xml&amp;ssSheet=\/opinion\/2002\/03\/10\/ixop.html\" title=\"Many moral issues wrapped up in this stuff.\">seriously promoting eugenics<\/a> in the near future, or that in the resulting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15865\" title=\"A bunch of 'puter people with no Trek geeks?\">MeFi discussion<\/a> nobody thought to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671021273\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"I haven't read this series, but it looks interesting.\">Eugenics Wars<\/a> of the early 1990&#8217;s, leading to <a href=\"http:\/\/tatooine.fortunecity.com\/herbert\/305\/mmain.htm\" title=\"The first major Moby Dick-quoting ST character.\">Khan Noonien Singh<\/a>&#8216;s bid for world power in 1992, and his departure with a band of followers in 1996. Or maybe I&#8217;m just a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/\" title=\"ST Official site\">Star Trek<\/a> geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what surprises me more &#8212; that someone in the UK is writing an article that appears to be seriously promoting eugenics in the near future, or that in the resulting MeFi discussion nobody thought to mention the Eugenics Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2047],"tags":[861,4097],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-star-trek","tag-khan","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}