{"id":83474,"date":"2015-12-27T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83474"},"modified":"2015-12-27T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T02:59:39","slug":"heredity-uber-alles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83474","title":{"rendered":"Heredity Uber Alles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-new-star-wars-movie\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>As with Harry Potter and many other recent blockbusters, the central theme remains Heredity Uber Alles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of these days I\u2019m going to have to write up an explanation for why heredity became such a magnetic force in popular culture in the 1970s, just as heredity was being driven out of serious intellectual culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977&#8230;. 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