Potent technology plus designed-order ambition produced modern genocide

Evidence

It was the combination of growing potency of means and the unconstrained determination to use it in the service of an artificial, designed order, that gave human cruelty its distinctively modern touch and made the Gulag, Auschwitz and Hiroshima possible, perhaps even unavoidable. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 620

Categorization

• XREF: This is the load-bearing causal claim connecting to biopolitics/necropolitics readings in the reader’s stated toolkit; also echoes the Means-ends logic in ‘On Sacrifice’ article. — connects to: Modern execution technologies fused democratic equality with mass-scale killing. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 50; Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 309; Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 264 (+9 more)

Related

• Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society (similarity 0.89)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.88)
• Modern bureaucracy already contains everything needed for genocide without structural revision. (similarity 0.86)
• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design (similarity 0.85)
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart (similarity 0.84)
• Instrumental rationality cannot prevent mass atrocities and normalizes social engineering. (similarity 0.83)
• Genocide kills for non-fit with the perfect society’s scheme (similarity 0.83)
• Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence (similarity 0.83)
• Genocide required replacing collective rage with bureaucratic obedience (similarity 0.83)
• Genocide is a normal potential of modernity, not its malfunction. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions (similarity 0.80)
• Modern civilization was a necessary but not sufficient condition of the Holocaust. (similarity 0.80)
• Grand design, state bureaucracy, and social paralysis together are the recipe for genocide. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Modern genocide requires bureaucracy meeting a rationally engineered social design #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 309
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #exemplifies (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 264
• Modern rational society enabled systematic genocide and discredited impulsive mass violence #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 261
• Genocide combines ordinary modern factors that are usually kept apart #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 274