Status Updates From Threats of Pain and Ruin

socialists were at least as keen on eugenics as plutocrats, and in fact their enthusiasm for it lasted much longer.
Eugenics, I suspect, was in reality a symptom of a growing impatience of intellectuals with the intractability of the human condition, with the fact that that Man was irredeemably imperfect

"Thus the ugliness of modern Europe is not the same as the ugliness of the past, a manifestation of poverty. It is the ugliness of a society in which people believe in nothing but their standard of living, as measured by their personal convenience and consumption. It is the ugliness of civilisational exhaustion."

Ouch.