One of the major darker outgrowths from the Enlightenment was the development of scientific racism as a rationale for both slavery and imperialism. Millions throughout the world suffered and died horribly at the hands of these virulently racist and brutal regimes. At the beginning of the 20th Century, one of the subjects that fascinated (even obsessed) elites in the United States and Western Europe (particularly Germany, before and during the Third Reich) was the Darwinian pseudo-science of eugenics. The idea was conceived by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton. This was the concept that through selective scientific breeding a new superior … Continue reading Redefining Humanity: Transgender Identity, Transhumanism, and Chimeras