Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter

Evidence

One could indeed point out that – in our age of artificiality of the social order, of the putative omnipotence of education and, more generally, of social engineering – biology in general, and heredity in particular, stand in public consciousness for the area still off-limits for cultural manipulation; something we do not know yet how to tinker with and to mould and reshape according to our will. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to biopolitics/necropolitics in the reader’s theory toolkit: defining a group biologically places them beyond social redemption, a mechanism Islamophobia readings can reuse. — connects to: The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493; Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498; Biopolitics governs populations through statistics, not individuals — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 261 (+3 more)

Related

• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Biopolitics governs populations through statistics, not individuals (similarity 0.79)
• The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi social policy extended breeding logic to urban improvement and elimination. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498
• The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving #complicates (0.82) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493