The War On Our Worlds

George Bernard Shaw meets Xi Jinping

Did you know that George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was actually a prettied up eugenicist manifesto? I did not.

Shaw proposed that commoners be required to appear before an authoritarian body “every 5 years or 7 years” to justify their existence. If a common person could not show that he had been a productive, worthwhile citizen he would be jettisoned from his life as a useless eater through a “painless” drug or poison gas. Maybe Shaw presumed a world where work was plentiful and the only thing preventing a person from fulfilling the requisite productivity was laziness, or perhaps, an unacceptable antipathy to wage slavery? I don’t know.

The Wall Street Journal reports :

“China’s total fertility rate—a snapshot of the average number of babies a woman would have over her lifetime—fell to 1.09 last year, from 1.30 in 2020, according to a study by a unit of the National Health Commission cited this week by National Business Daily, a media outlet managed by the municipal government of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. At 1.09, China’s rate would be below the 1.26 of Japan, a country long known for its aging society—throwing one of Beijing’s long-term challenges into sharp relief even as the country struggles with an economic slowdown right now…”

Shortly after this data was published, it was memory-holed by the Chinese government which has also elected to discontinue publishing data on youth unemployment as the number of unemployed continues to rise.

Economic stagnation means fewer people can afford to have children. Of course, this begs the question of how many such couples are actually infertile, (a common problem in the United States other countries as well) as a result of vaccines, microwave radiation or environmental toxins. And the U.S. fertility rate-as defined in the WSJ quote above- has also been steadily declining when viewed as a long term trend. Bill Gates and his fellow eugenicists must be dancing at the news of declining populations.

Outright culling of humanity via the clot-shot is assisted by the recession-promoting, employment-reducing, AI-employing hands that run our worlds. The poorer and sicker we humans become the less likely we are to reproduce. As we view the Chinese state panopticon and its Covidian war on citizens, such action is ultimately self-defeating, embodying a contradiction, life vs. death, that can never be resolved.

In the late 1970’s a TV show called Meeting of the Minds staged imaginary conversations between characters from various historical periods. At the time I thought it bathetic nonsense, but I may have been wrong. Wouldn’t it be lovely to see GB Shaw discussing the useless eaters with Xi Jinping and how they see the world in our future?

Perhaps JB Sears could play one and Jimmy Dore the other.