Category: State Biopolitics

• Prohibition as a Health Reset

  Prohibition as a Health Reset was the theory that the ban on alcohol was not only a moral or public-order reform, but a biological purification project. In its strongest form, the theory claimed that the state sought to clean and harden the national bloodstream for a future militarized program, sometimes imagined as a super-soldier initiative grounded in eugenics and selective fitness. The historical basis beneath the theory was real enough to sustain it: prohibitionist rhetoric often linked alcohol to degeneration, heredity, and “racial poison,” and eugenic language circulated openly in early twentieth-century reform culture. The conspiracy version converted temperance into biomedical pre-conditioning for a future state warrior class.