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| Juhanor 04/23/25 12:16:30 PM #93: | ImAMarvel posted... Oh and TC is graduating soon?Indeed; IIRC you're working on your degree as well, how far in are you? ROBBAN posted... Maybe i'm reading too much into it, but the way he talked about everyone else being the aliens cattle, and him being better than them, and something about "saving the race", it kinda felt like he was a proto-"Alpha male" assI can't say definitively but I think that's an interpretation with merit. Keeping in mind, late 19th/early 20th century, eugenics was a very popular concept. From his wiki page, Wells "doubted whether human knowledge had advanced sufficiently for eugenics to be successful" (which we can kinda see in Time Machine), at first contemplating that sterilization of "negative" attributes would be more likely than reinforcement of positive; by 1940 he was against the concept entirely and considered it a violation of human rights. So maybe the artillery-man was him airing some thoughts or portraying the negatives of the concept. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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