DAVE: WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IS BEAUTIFUL AND WHAT IS UGLY IS UGLY | 2008-05-16
It is natural for children to be highly aware of genetic endowments (as they notice differences right off the bat), only to be tossed into a public school culture that is on a relentless full court attempt to pacify the issue.
Of course the reality is the system is as obsessed with the issue of genetic endowments and the child naturally is. It is just that Political Correctness expresses this obsession inversely. Were it not so, there would be no need for so much Political Correctness on the issue.
You can't dispose of the awareness of genetic traits because you can't dispossess of narcissism and desire, even where millions of innocent children are gleefully thrown into the meat grinder of officially sanctioned dereliction and suffer horrendous damage there, including relentless pain which quickly morphs (for many) into self-inflicted and permanently disabling injuries and ruin (usually through drug and alcohol abuse and related accidents and criminal acts).
The medical profession and pharmaceutical industry leap about in bacchanalian ecstasy on account of their profit in the carnage, carnage they make every effort to expand and worsen (along with the justice system which likes the carnage for the same reasons).
Hoffer was obsessed with the subject of genetic endowment because he was sure owing to family history that he would die around the age of 30. When this failed to happen, he realized that transmission of genetic traits is far trickier subject than he had supposed.
There is a fraud in esthetics that goes like this: "Nothing hath beauty that does not have some strangeness of proportion". Swindlers and the deluded of every age love that one. It should be tattooed on Hillary Clinton's butt (there's certainly plenty of room) as the defining motto for everything she represents.
Of course, the opposite is true: The very essence of beauty lies precisely in the lack of strangeness of proportion.
That's why the genetic husbandry of man will triumph. It lies in a narcissism that no matter what must be endured, cannot be defrauded.
That is also why there is more to Orwell's maxim, "Freedom is being able to say two plus two equals four" than its literal meaning.
What is beautiful is beautiful and what is ugly is ugly.
No amount of deceit and crime can change that fact.