"Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel
"A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
Chris Hedges
"In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash."
Francis I
The Aktion T4 Programme provided the expertise, the administrative practices, and the bureaucratic rationales required to build the mass extermination facilities and the camps.
The beginning of social Darwinism is financial Darwinism, the unjust and willful allocation of means and opportunity. This enriches the favored, and permits the oppressed to be more easily labeled as inferior, useless eaters, life unworthy of life.
You may try to help them, but they are sub-human, and stubbornly beyond redemption. It is a difficult task, but someone must do it. As the superior few, we must do those hard things for the good of all. It is our destiny. Thinning their ranks at a distance becomes easy to rationalize, and after a time a purely practical routine, like cutting the grass.
The root of it all is in the will to power, the desire of the few to determine the value of all life, and to define both good and evil, with themselves as the ultimate good. And their handiwork is not life, but a profound emptiness, the abomination of desolation.
They never have enough. Not enough money, not enough power, not enough killing. They cannot give life, so they will bring death. They fear weakness and death, so they attempt to be its master. They would be as gods. And in their pride they make themselves, and all those around them, into monsters.
