I have to admit, when Charlie Chaplin gave his speech on the beloved emperor, or whatever it was called, and said Science I flinched a little. A bunch of guys figuring out stuff through test tubes will not change culture directly.
“Even when the struggle seems to drift towards a world social democracy, there may still be delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people will hate the New World Order, be rendered unhappy by frustrations of their passions and ambitions through its advent, and will die protesting against it... We have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful looking people.”
-- H.G. Wells “The New World Order” (1939)
"The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failures, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."
“The future will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We start with the old, because as soon as they exceed 60-65 years, people live longer than they produce and that costs society dearly. Then the weak, then the useless that do not help society because there will always be more of them, and above all, ultimately, the stupid.
Euthanasia targeting these groups; Euthanasia will have to be an essential tool in our future societies, in all cases. Of course we will not be able to execute people or build camps. We get rid of them by making them believe that it is for their own good. Overpopulation, and mostly useless, is something that is too costly economically. Socially, too, it is much better when the human machine comes to an abrupt standstill than when it gradually deteriorates.
Neither will we be able to test millions upon millions of people for their intelligence, you bet that! We will find or cause something a pandemic targeting certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus affecting the old or the fat, it doesn't matter, the weak will succumb to it, the fearful and stupid will believe in it and seek treatment. We will have made sure that treatment is in place, treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots then takes care of itself: You go to the slaughter by yourself."
-- The Future of Life - Jacques Attali, 1981, Interview with Michel Salomon, Les Visages de l’avenir collection, éditions Seghers.
I have to admit, when Charlie Chaplin gave his speech on the beloved emperor, or whatever it was called, and said Science I flinched a little. A bunch of guys figuring out stuff through test tubes will not change culture directly.
“Even when the struggle seems to drift towards a world social democracy, there may still be delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people will hate the New World Order, be rendered unhappy by frustrations of their passions and ambitions through its advent, and will die protesting against it... We have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful looking people.”
-- H.G. Wells “The New World Order” (1939)
"The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failures, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."
-- H. G. Wells
“The future will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We start with the old, because as soon as they exceed 60-65 years, people live longer than they produce and that costs society dearly. Then the weak, then the useless that do not help society because there will always be more of them, and above all, ultimately, the stupid.
Euthanasia targeting these groups; Euthanasia will have to be an essential tool in our future societies, in all cases. Of course we will not be able to execute people or build camps. We get rid of them by making them believe that it is for their own good. Overpopulation, and mostly useless, is something that is too costly economically. Socially, too, it is much better when the human machine comes to an abrupt standstill than when it gradually deteriorates.
Neither will we be able to test millions upon millions of people for their intelligence, you bet that! We will find or cause something a pandemic targeting certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus affecting the old or the fat, it doesn't matter, the weak will succumb to it, the fearful and stupid will believe in it and seek treatment. We will have made sure that treatment is in place, treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots then takes care of itself: You go to the slaughter by yourself."
-- The Future of Life - Jacques Attali, 1981, Interview with Michel Salomon, Les Visages de l’avenir collection, éditions Seghers.