Impure Manhattan as the antidote to Auschwitz's pure evil

Against the great sin of exclusion (in the name of seeking ever greater human purity and perfection) is the even greater virtue of inclusion.

Never more so than now, when the Earth and the human race face an environmental and existential crisis.

We need the help and the ideas of ALL (the 99 % plus 1) to get us through this crisis -- we can't let the fate of the world rest solely upon the unlimited wealth (but strictly limited brainpower) of just the world's 1%.


Because 'exclusion' was what the Nazis and Auschwitz was all about.

By way of contrast, the Nazis' contemporary Dr Henry Dawson and his little Manhattan Project was all about inclusion (with 'help from all', there is 'hope for all'.)

Manhattan Impure : Antidote to Auschwitz

So Dr Dawson deliberately made the very biggest possible inclusive tent and went out and recruited the help of those much despised 4Fs of the biological world - the fungal slimes - to produce Manhattan's 'impure' penicillin, the miracle that saved so many of the 4Fs of the human world (and so many 1As as well).

It was a lesson we postwar boomer kids never forgot.

Modernity's quest for ever greater purity in the most civilized of the human race had led down to Auschwitz's gates while the despised little fungal slimes had produced the great good of life-saving penicillin.

We were post-modernists before we were even out of our nappies....

Antidote to Auschwitz : Manhattan 'impure'

Modernity's parents & grandparents could have dismissed Auschwitz as simply the work of a few misguided modernist zealots.

In fact, that is what they did do.

But their own kids weren't buying it.


After a war when so much killing was done in the name of Modernity's quest for ever greater human purity and ever greater human perfection, the little ankle biters couldn't help but notice that their teachers and parents had inadvertently offered up a more attractive alternative vision.

It was developed by Manhattan's Dr Dawson, during the war itself.

As out teachers loved to remind us :

"The great good that so many of you kiddies are alive and healthy at all is down to the wonder-working antibiotics, made by dirty slimy no account nothings found in some third rate jungle mud."

It was no contest which one  the six year old me preferred : impure-produced health & happiness over pure evil, any day ...