Were do they all come from? 2/11/2012

The progressives in the 1930’s were concerned about global population growth and the world’s ability to feed all the new people.  In 1931 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and later in 1958 he revisited it.  When I first read it, it was a warning; but to some it is a blueprint.  To carry the point forward, in 1968 Paul R. Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb, predicting that the world would end up like Calcutta in the mid 20th century with people dying of starvation in the streets.

The premise, as expanded and refined over the years, is that people are bad.  We pollute the water and the atmosphere, we fight wars, we develop doomsday weapons, we reproduce greater than the planet can sustain us, we are selfish, we compete unfairly with each other, we cheat and harm each other, and the planet would be better off without us.

The Noble Savage became a celebrated ideal in the liberal cocktail circuits in the 1960’s.  If people were supposed to exist, they should do so in harmony with nature, having only two surviving kids to replace each other, and giving back to the land that which was taken. This way of life, with the exception of a few debutantes doing the Hippie thing for a few weeks, was to be planned and dictated to the masses by the elite who get to keep the trappings of their wealth while they decide on the fate of the masses.

Political and economic solutions were dismissed as the thought of the day was that resources and wealth were limited and they would become depleted.  They felt that The Great Depression dictated the industrial nations had reached the limits of the growth of wealth and very little additional wealth could be created.  I belief, in spite of the last 70 years of proof to the contrary, continues to held today.

In light of government mandated health care, I went back to Aldous Huxley’s update in 1958 and found the philosophy of government population control fearfully topical.

“Even the poorest government is rich enough to provide its subjects with a substantial measure of death con­trol.  Birth control is a very different matter. Death control is something which can be provided for a whole people by a few technicians working in the pay of a benevolent government…
“The annual increase of numbers [of population] should be re­duced. But how? We are given two choices — famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control — and im­mediately find ourselves confronted by a problem that is simultaneously a puzzle in physiology, pharmacol­ogy, sociology, psychology and even theology. ‘The Pill’ has not yet been invented. When and if it is invented, how can it be distributed to the many hundreds of millions of potential mothers (or, if it is a pill that works upon the male, potential fathers) who will have to take it if the birth rate of the species is to be reduced?

“And, given existing social customs and the forces of cultural and psychological inertia, how can those who ought to take the pill, but don’t want to, be persuaded to change their minds? And what about the objections on the part of the Roman Catholic Church, to any form of birth control except the so-called Rhythm Method — a method, incidentally, which has proved, hitherto, to be almost completely in­effective in reducing the birth rate of those indus­trially backward societies where such a reduction is most urgently necessary? And these questions about the future, hypothetical Pill must be asked, with as little prospect of eliciting satisfactory answers, about the chemical and mechanical methods of birth control already available.

“…recent public opinion polls have revealed that an actual majority of young people in their teens, the voters of tomorrow, have no faith in democratic institutions, see no objection to the censor­ship of unpopular ideas, do not believe that govern­ment of the people by the people is possible and would be perfectly content, if they can continue to live in the style to which the boom has accustomed them, to be ruled, from above, by an oligarchy of assorted experts.”

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The new health care system controlled by the federal government, with decisions passed down to the states concerning the affordability and distribution of expensive life saving measures, and the promotion of free universal birth control, abortion pills, sterilization, and abortions, fits the pattern of the first steps in cleansing the planet of what the progressives consider the Earth’s worse enemy.

I’m just sayin.’