How bad is Keynesianism? I like to make this comparison.

In World War 2, the US Army Air Corp's bombardment of the Japanese home islands destroyed 85% of the entire country. Curtis LeMay was one of our primary serial killers. He murdered 100,000 people in a single raid. Somewhere around 4% of the population was killed in the war.

The birthrate for Japan in 1947, while whole swathes of the country were in total ruin, was 4.5.

The current birthrate is 1.3. It's probably the lowest birthrate that Japan has ever seen in the history of it's civilization.

People think that de-population is usually related to war and violence, normally it's an innuendo for genocide.

Yet the depopultion of Japan is taking place without a shot being fired. Without a single bomb being dropped. Without a single home being burned. Without any of the atrocities of war, the Japanese have been so badly mauled that mothers will not produce children, that 40% of men under the age of 35 are virgins, that people die alone in their apartments not being found for weeks or months.

Keynsianism is a weapon that has so ravaged Japan it has got them to kill themselves, rather than having to fire-bomb them.

How bad is Keynesianism? I like to make this comparison.

In World War 2, the US Army Air Corp's bombardment of the Japanese home islands destroyed 85% of the entire country. Curtis LeMay was one of our primary serial killers. He murdered 100,000 people in a single raid. Somewhere around 4% of the population was killed in the war.

The birthrate for Japan in 1947, while whole swathes of the country were in total ruin, was 4.5.

The current birthrate is 1.3. It's probably the lowest birthrate that Japan has ever seen in the history of it's civilization.

People think that de-population is usually related to war and violence, normally it's an innuendo for genocide.

Yet the depopultion of Japan is taking place without a shot being fired. Without a single bomb being dropped. Without a single home being burned. Without any of the atrocities of war, the Japanese have been so badly mauled that mothers will not produce children, that 40% of men under the age of 35 are virgins, that people die alone in their apartments not being found for weeks or months.

Keynsianism is a weapon that has so ravaged Japan it has got them to kill themselves, rather than having to fire-bomb them.