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WHY
CIVILIZATIONS
SELF-DESTRUCT
ELMER PENDELL
 
WHY
CIVILIZATIONS
SELF-DESTRUCT
ELMER PENDELL
Giant
intellects like
Gibbon,
Spengler
and
Toynbee
havegi\'en us
complex
and tortuous
reasons for
thedecline
of
civilizations. Dr. Pendell presents us
with
a
simple
one. Civilizationsfall because
the
less
capable
slice of
the
population
regularlyoutbreeds the
more capable.
In
precivilized times
nature
weeds
out
the
unfitandeventually
produces a
superior
variety
of
men
",hose intelligence
and
industriousness are
channeled into
con
structing
an
advanced social
order
that
defeats
nature's
best-laidplans by
protecting
instead of
eliminating
the
unfit.
The
out
come
is
that
in several
generations the
protected
outnumber
the
protectors.Dr.
Pendell
scours
the
annals of history to
prove
his
point,
after
beginning
his seminal study with a
remarkable
analysis
ofthe
inborn,
polarized egotistic
and
altruistic
drives
which arethe
biological basis for
both the
building
and unbuilding
of
civilizations.Most illlportantly, Dr.
Pendell
offers us ways
and
means
tostop
the
historic
and hitherto
unstoppable
processes
of
social entropy.
One
of
his most
intriguing-and
most
controversial
remedies
is
a genetically
oriented
marriage law
to raise
the
birthrate
of
ollr
better human
specimens
and
substantially
lower
the
proliferation
rate
of
the
civilization-destroying
peoplewho
can
neither
provide
for themselves
nor
their
offspring.
Cover
Illustrations:
Reconstruction
of the
Ziggurat
of
Ur
Nammu and
Shulgiat
Ur(Third
Dynasty,
.2200-2100
B.C.) ,
drawing
by
Claude
Abeille
after
a model by Wooley.
The
Zig
gurat
today
(photo
by
Andre
Parrott)
.
 
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