Andrew Sabisky
On 6 February, in a 'Guardian Journal article entitled, 'Inside the Mind of Dominic Cummings, the English Literary critic, Stefan Collini, wrote:
"In Cummings's ontology, the world appears to be made up of an extremely small number of outstandingly clever individuals and a mass of mediocrities.
David Cameron, who served as the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010 to 2016, called Cummings a "Career Psychopath", and other people have said even less flattering things of Cummings, who doesn't court popularity.
Early in January, Cummings published a 3,000 word discursive rant that urged "Misfits and Weirdos" to come and help him to transform the government as Chief Special Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Cummings declared that he didn't want to hire "confident public school bluffers" or "Oxbridge English graduates who chat about (French psychoanalyst Jacques) Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers..."
Among the draft of 'misfits and wierdos' who applied for a job to become a special adviser to Boris Johnson, was 27-year-old, Andrew Sabisky, who joined the administration. The young thruster, who calls himself a 'super forecaster', soon began to attract attention because of his many Tweets. Sabisky has stated that he wants the young to undergo compulsory contraception to prevent a 'permanent underclass' and suggested that many black people are "close to mental retardation." In 2014, Sabisky wrote on Cummings's website:
"One way to get round the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass, would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty."
Among his more egregious comments, are that 'richer people are more intelligent' than the rest of us and that eugenics, is about 'selecting for good things.' He also argues for giving all children a drug called 'modafinil', a treatment for narcolepsy, to cut the need for sleep by two-thirds, even at the cost of "a dead kid once a year." Sabisky, has also said that women's sport is more akin to the Paralympics, the sporting event for people who have physical impairments, than it is to men's sport. In one blog, he wrote:
"It is still unclear to what extent female genital mutilation represents a serious risk to young girls, raised in the UK, of certain minority group origins. Much of the hue and cry looks more like a moral panic."
On May 1st, Sabisky tweeted: "It says something about how badly defence is regarded that we keeping getting proper morons as SecDef, Mordaunt somehow being even worse than Williamson."
Downing Street have declined to say which policy area Sabisky is working in, but confirmed he was a contractor working on specific projects. At a recent press conference the Prime Minister's deputy spokesman refused 32 times to say whether the PM, Boris Johnson, shared Sabisky's views on eugenics or if Johnson thinks black people are mentally inferior. He could only say Mr Johnson's views were "well publicised and documented."
Although Boris Johnson is being urged to sack Sabisky and other special advisers are saying they would refuse to work with him, there is nothing really original, astonishing or even remarkable, in what the 'super forecaster' has been saying. The clown is a waste of taxpayers money and so is Cummings. However shocked people are by his comments, much of what he says, has been said well before he was born and even put into practice.
In the U.S., following the famous court ruling in Buck v. Bell in 1927, which upheld the principle of applying compulsory sterilisation to the disabled teenager Carrie Bell, the Supreme Court voted eight to one for her sterilisation. The U.S. Supreme Court Judge, Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr, said during the hearing, "three generations of imbeciles are enough." The case set a precedent and over 60,000 compulsory sterilisations followed in the U.S. until the practice was abandoned in the 1960s. Many of those sterilised were poor Americans, epileptics, and those considered 'Feebleminded'.
However, one should be careful about what you wish for. Both the writer and playwright George Bernard Shaw and the academic Professor Harold Laski, were keen eugenicists and Fabians. Shaw's writings on socialism and Soviet Communism, included proposals to execute economic exploiters (capitalists), by poison gas, and Laski, a committed supporter of the Soviet Union, told his American friend Wendall Holmes, "Sterilize all the unfit, among whom I include all fundamentalists."
Racial differences in intelligence and the underclass were discussed in the controversial 1994 book the 'Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life' by the psychologist Richard J Hernstein and political scientist Charles Murray, and the idea that the world is made up of a small number of talented individuals, who we 'mediocrity's', should all be indebted to for our conditions in life, has a long lineage.
In January 1958, Ludwig von Mises, the acknowledged leader of the Austrian school of economic thought, wrote to the novelist Ayn Rand about her pro-capitalist novel 'Atlas Shrugged'. He told her: "
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it still is the truth that had to be said in this age of the Welfare State."
To this day, the views and comments of Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand are shared by many Conservatives and those on the right, including Margaret Thatcher, who subscribed to this view. The book Atlas Shrugged was said at one time to be the bible of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Tea Party movement, and devotees of Ayn Rand, have included the former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, U.S. Congressman, Paul Ryan, and the former UK chancellor, Sajid Javid.
A staunch believer in unfettered capitalism and individualism, Rand reviled welfare protection measures for the poor, who she considered parasites, but in old age she finished up on social security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Early in January, Cummings published a 3,000 word discursive rant that urged "Misfits and Weirdos" to come and help him to transform the government as Chief Special Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Cummings declared that he didn't want to hire "confident public school bluffers" or "Oxbridge English graduates who chat about (French psychoanalyst Jacques) Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers..."
Among the draft of 'misfits and wierdos' who applied for a job to become a special adviser to Boris Johnson, was 27-year-old, Andrew Sabisky, who joined the administration. The young thruster, who calls himself a 'super forecaster', soon began to attract attention because of his many Tweets. Sabisky has stated that he wants the young to undergo compulsory contraception to prevent a 'permanent underclass' and suggested that many black people are "close to mental retardation." In 2014, Sabisky wrote on Cummings's website:
"One way to get round the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass, would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty."
Among his more egregious comments, are that 'richer people are more intelligent' than the rest of us and that eugenics, is about 'selecting for good things.' He also argues for giving all children a drug called 'modafinil', a treatment for narcolepsy, to cut the need for sleep by two-thirds, even at the cost of "a dead kid once a year." Sabisky, has also said that women's sport is more akin to the Paralympics, the sporting event for people who have physical impairments, than it is to men's sport. In one blog, he wrote:
"It is still unclear to what extent female genital mutilation represents a serious risk to young girls, raised in the UK, of certain minority group origins. Much of the hue and cry looks more like a moral panic."
On May 1st, Sabisky tweeted: "It says something about how badly defence is regarded that we keeping getting proper morons as SecDef, Mordaunt somehow being even worse than Williamson."
Downing Street have declined to say which policy area Sabisky is working in, but confirmed he was a contractor working on specific projects. At a recent press conference the Prime Minister's deputy spokesman refused 32 times to say whether the PM, Boris Johnson, shared Sabisky's views on eugenics or if Johnson thinks black people are mentally inferior. He could only say Mr Johnson's views were "well publicised and documented."
Although Boris Johnson is being urged to sack Sabisky and other special advisers are saying they would refuse to work with him, there is nothing really original, astonishing or even remarkable, in what the 'super forecaster' has been saying. The clown is a waste of taxpayers money and so is Cummings. However shocked people are by his comments, much of what he says, has been said well before he was born and even put into practice.
In the U.S., following the famous court ruling in Buck v. Bell in 1927, which upheld the principle of applying compulsory sterilisation to the disabled teenager Carrie Bell, the Supreme Court voted eight to one for her sterilisation. The U.S. Supreme Court Judge, Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr, said during the hearing, "three generations of imbeciles are enough." The case set a precedent and over 60,000 compulsory sterilisations followed in the U.S. until the practice was abandoned in the 1960s. Many of those sterilised were poor Americans, epileptics, and those considered 'Feebleminded'.
However, one should be careful about what you wish for. Both the writer and playwright George Bernard Shaw and the academic Professor Harold Laski, were keen eugenicists and Fabians. Shaw's writings on socialism and Soviet Communism, included proposals to execute economic exploiters (capitalists), by poison gas, and Laski, a committed supporter of the Soviet Union, told his American friend Wendall Holmes, "Sterilize all the unfit, among whom I include all fundamentalists."
Racial differences in intelligence and the underclass were discussed in the controversial 1994 book the 'Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life' by the psychologist Richard J Hernstein and political scientist Charles Murray, and the idea that the world is made up of a small number of talented individuals, who we 'mediocrity's', should all be indebted to for our conditions in life, has a long lineage.
In January 1958, Ludwig von Mises, the acknowledged leader of the Austrian school of economic thought, wrote to the novelist Ayn Rand about her pro-capitalist novel 'Atlas Shrugged'. He told her: "
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it still is the truth that had to be said in this age of the Welfare State."
To this day, the views and comments of Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand are shared by many Conservatives and those on the right, including Margaret Thatcher, who subscribed to this view. The book Atlas Shrugged was said at one time to be the bible of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Tea Party movement, and devotees of Ayn Rand, have included the former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, U.S. Congressman, Paul Ryan, and the former UK chancellor, Sajid Javid.
A staunch believer in unfettered capitalism and individualism, Rand reviled welfare protection measures for the poor, who she considered parasites, but in old age she finished up on social security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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Sabisky resigned yesterday. It seems he had very little formal schooling and was largely educated at home in Chelsea by his mother.He didn't go to university and he's the eldest of six chidren. His father Ed Sabisky, is the Chief Finance Officer for Unite the Union and is a Non Executive Director of the Unity Trust Bank. Ed Sabisky was educated at Ivy League Dartmouth College in the USA.
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