Before the Progressive Elite had to maintain their public relations, you could read their more private writings to other elite layers, and their statements really do come across as seeing themselves as God Kings.
Like, Smaug is probably more humble and down-to-earth than most internationalists are.
One of the reasons that Eugenics was so popular is because the elites genuinely believed in a Malthusian population crash because poor people would out-breed them. They literally saw themselves as the pinnacle of human IQ & evolution, so exterminating the poor was a moral imperative to preserving humanity.
I'd bet it's the latter.
Before the Progressive Elite had to maintain their public relations, you could read their more private writings to other elite layers, and their statements really do come across as seeing themselves as God Kings.
Like, Smaug is probably more humble and down-to-earth than most internationalists are.
One of the reasons that Eugenics was so popular is because the elites genuinely believed in a Malthusian population crash because poor people would out-breed them. They literally saw themselves as the pinnacle of human IQ & evolution, so exterminating the poor was a moral imperative to preserving humanity.