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We white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, British, German, American, have been on a rampage, for the past hundred or more years, to improve the world To improve the world We have given the benefits of our culture, our religion, our technology to everybody Except perhaps the Australian aborigines And we have insisted that they receive the benefits of our culture, even our political styles, our democracy You better be Democratic, or we'll shoot you And having conferred these blessings all over the place, we wonder why everybody hates us See, because sometimes, doing good to others, and even doing good to oneself Is amazingly destructive, because it's full of conceit How do you know what's good for other people? How do you know what's good for you? If you say you want to improve, you ought to know what's good for you But obviously, you don't, because if you did, you would be improved How do you know what's good for other people? How do you know what's good for you? If you say you want to improve, you ought to know what's good for you But obviously, you don't, because if you did, you would be improved So we don't know It's like the problem of geneticists, which they face today I went to a meeting of geneticists not so long ago, where they gathered in a group of philosophers and theologians and said, "Now, look here. We need help." We now are on the verge of figuring out how to breed any kind of human character We would want to have We can give you saints, philosophers, scientists, great politicians, anything you want Just tell us, what kind of human beings ought we to breed? So, I said, "How will those of us who are genetically unregenerate make up our minds what genetically generate people might be?” Because I'm afraid, very much, that our selection of virtues may not work It may be like, for example, this new kind of high-yield grain Which is becoming ecologically destructive When we interfere with the processes of nature and breed efficient plants and efficient animals There's always some way in which we have to pay for it And I can well see that eugenically-produced human beings might be dreadful We could have a plague of virtuous people You realize that? You realize that? Any animal considered in itself is virtuous, it does its thing, but in crowds, they're awful Like a crowd of ants or locusts on the rampage They're all perfectly good animals, but it's just too much I could imagine a perfectly pestiferous mass of a million saints
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