Chapter 103: Political Commissar Guo's Iron Ambition (Supplement)

“…… From my personal point of view, I don't consider myself a racist or a religious fanatic. The so-called great unity of the working people of the world, the so-called proletariat, not everyone is qualified to call themselves working people and proletariat. Only those who are willing to embrace scientific ideas and become part of the apparatus of the industrialized state are qualified to be considered working people: not that you have to be a worker, a farmer or an engineer, but you must at least identify with this modern society and support yourself with your hands in this social system. And those who are unable to adapt to and accept the modern industrial society, and rely on receiving handouts and eating welfare to make a living, can only be said to be useless to modern society, no different from those lumpenproletarians who are idle, idle and indiscriminate, and must undergo severe compulsory education and labor reform before they are qualified to become a member of the working people - those who do not work cannot eat, the poor are not the same as the working people, and no matter how pitiful and down-to-earth beggars and thieves are, they are also the targets of the socialist revolution! As for those who make a living by violent crime and inciting anti-scientific superstitions, who are pests digging into the foundations of modern industrialized countries, who are qualified to waste the earth's resources alive?

This standard applies not only to foreigners, but also to Chinese. If the Chinese in those years had been warlords fighting and political darkness, if they had always been self-contained, adhered to superstitious ideas, refused to accept modern industry, and had always regarded science and technology as strange and ingenious, and were unwilling to bow down to the West to learn and reform themselves, then they deserved to be wiped out under the attack of Malthusian population trap and foreign invasion!

Although it does not conform to the moral logic of political correctness, the cruel reality of iron has never been denied by a few words of quiet years and the dignity of the small people. It is still possible to live if you do evil in heaven, but you cannot live if you do it yourself. The torrent of the times will never have mercy on any of the laggards. Just as the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, no matter how much they begged, begged, negotiated, and redressed their grievances, those imperialist powers under the guise of morality, civilization, equality, and human rights would not be inspired to let go of their butcher's knives, and the third world countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia struggling in the population explosion crisis must also find ways to save themselves, instead of sitting and crying about the injustice of heaven, and then putting the blame on others - for such a scoundrel, I can only say that you are not willing to save yourself, and you are not willing to die, It's really embarrassing! ”

Speaking of this, Political Commissar Guo couldn't help but sigh and pondered for a moment before opening his mouth again, "...... After the Second World War, the production and concentration of material wealth in industrial society reached such a level that it gave a certain group of people the illusion that it was normal and natural for people to live, that people should be happy to live, and that they would not die and rot due to lack of resources, naivety and ignorance, gender, hunger, and disease.

Especially in the years since the Cold War, some intellectuals have gone even further in their illusions, believing that the so-called food, clothing, security, wealth, and vacation, including the environment, are all gifts, and if they are not enjoyed, they must be the fault of the government.

Moreover, they obviously did not create much wealth, but they relied on their moral discourse to force others to donate all kinds of things under the banner of light that seemed to be full of truth, goodness and beauty, regardless of whether the other party's family could afford it. To be honest, it's not much different from cults accumulating money.

However, in fact, these so-called benevolence and kindness are often the main culprits of all kinds of disasters. For example, before entering the twentieth century, the population of Africa and the Middle East did not explode, not because blacks and Arabs at that time could not have children, but because the epidemic and the infant mortality rate were too high, and the highest could even reach 30 to 60 percent, so the high birth rate was pulled back. However, after World War II, with the improvement of medical conditions and the charitable medical assistance of various international organizations, the infant mortality rate in these places suddenly dropped to a few per 1,000, but the birth rate did not decrease correspondingly, so the population began to skyrocket like a rocket. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China also experienced this process.

However, later, through family planning and many other painful means, we forced down China's birth rate. Africans, Arabs, and Indians have failed to do so, and as a result, their populations have continued to skyrocket to the point where war and AIDS cannot be sustained. Botswana, for example, has an AIDS prevalence rate of 40 percent and a devastating mortality rate, but that doesn't stop its population from doubling every decade. The countries of the Middle East are clearly at war, but their populations continue to grow tenaciously at a high rate, which is even more stunning.

But the problem is that the level of medical care, education, and industry must be coordinated and improved, so as not to cause chaos. Raising the level of medical care alone will produce a large number of low-quality and useless people who will not be able to generate dividends. Improving health care and education, but lagging industry, will neither be able to use modern agriculture to feed the swelling population, nor will it create as many jobs to absorb the educated, and will eventually lead to street unrest.

At present, in the vast majority of third world countries on the planet, it is a combination of both, and the former is more extensive and more numerous.

To tell the truth, natural selection for the survival of the fittest, originally in a backward agricultural society and a primitive society, high mortality and high fertility rates offset each other, but through the food and medical assistance of international forces, the balance of population growth has been broken, and on the contrary, it has gone against the laws of nature. If they were left completely stuck in the pre-industrial era, it would not have been possible for so many people to survive in these barren or wild lands, and to reproduce exponentially increasing populations. If the logic of industrialization is fully implemented, the surviving population is an effective labor force, able to produce far more material than it consumes at the efficiency of industrialization – but the reality is that it is neither, and the rapidly expanding low-quality population cannot find its place in an industrialized society, and such a large-scale demographic catastrophe is the result of irresponsible 'humanitarian aid'.

The next scene is almost doomed. China's thousands of years of history have proved that when the limited land cannot support so many people under certain technical conditions, and foreign aid is cut off for some reason, the cold fate will use any method to eliminate the excess and deformed population, whether it is famine or war, and finally restore the population to a balanced and normal state. ”

“…… And that means sending billions to billions of people to God! Levi pursed his lips, "...... Is there really no hope of redemption? ”

“…… Hope for Third World Countries to Overcome the Demographic Crisis...... Well, it can't be said that there is no at all, but it is definitely very slim. According to our known experience, only simple and crude family planning, or large-scale industrialization, can increase productivity while allowing them to return to a reasonable population curve, such as Iran and Turkey, that is, after industrialization, through universal education, promote urbanization, absorb rural people into cities, improve their living standards, reduce people's willingness to have children, and successfully resolve the population explosion problem in their own countries.

However, both Iran and Turkey actually have very deep imperial and civilizational roots (the Persian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, plus the afterglow of the Eastern Roman Empire), and in terms of cohesion and execution, they are not comparable to the 'tribes masquerading as states' in the Middle East and North Africa, so as to persevere on the road of industrialization. Today, countries in Africa and the Middle East, no matter what kind of political system they adopt on the surface, are still feudal or even tribal societies in their bones, but they rely on selling resources to feed many people. Their population is not a modern population, unable to find its place in the industrial society, and they are facing a 'general crisis' in which the whole society is on the verge of disintegration and cornered, just like the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China! In fact, they are actually the same as the Qing Dynasty people who were broken by the Western ships and cannons and had to face the 'great changes unseen in 3,000 years', their own social evolution process was broken by the colonial era, resulting in the ethnic groups that were still in the primitive tribal society and slave society, and since then they have been wrapped up in this world that is constantly accelerating, and they have become at a loss. Colonial aggression, humanitarian aid, or political intervention are all interrupting the self-evolution of these backward societies and making their future more and more uncertain.

Taking China as an example, the road of industrialization of the Chinese has been bumpy for more than a century, and the experience during this period can be called a sea of corpses and blood, and the tragedy is overwhelming. Just to make the Chinese realize the importance of industrialization and take the initiative to embark on the road of industrialization, China had to fight two opium wars plus a peasant war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, killing more than 100 million people, so that those feudal doctors with rusty heads had the consciousness of carrying out the "foreign affairs movement." And this is only a starting point, the next process of China's industrialization, still from one failure to the next, from the great shame to the deeper shame, and finally able to break free from the quagmire to success, even we Chinese ourselves feel happy.

In fact, China has quite a large capital, with the largest single nation in the world, an imperial system of thousands of years and a unified language, a cultural foundation and national pride that is proud of the East, as well as a vast territory, a large amount of resources, and a long coastline. Rao is so, we are still in this road to industrialization shed blood and tears, before and after several halfway overturn, is really only half a step away from collapse.

But what about the third world countries that are now facing a demographic crisis? India's industrialization has been relatively successful, but it is still a joke in the eyes of China, the United States and Europe. The Arabs are divided into a bunch of small and medium-sized countries, and they cannot achieve even the most superficial political unity like India, but they still have the advantage of language and national unity. As for the Africans...... Alas, nothing but despair or despair!

If we say that the Arabs are at least civilized people, they have a superficial understanding of the country, commerce, and hierarchical society, and in addition to being fanatical about religion, they can basically communicate with us. The majority of black Africans, then, were still tribal a few generations ago, and have lagged behind the mainstream of human society for two or three thousand years. The basic pattern of behavior is still 'tribal', not modern, so there will be a rather strange style in the eyes of modern people, such as extreme laziness, just to fill the stomach, such as not following modern laws and rules, getting by and being poor; I don't have much planning for the future, and I am extremely free and casual. Because in the primitive tribes, the tribesmen have such an attitude to life.

The way of life of a feudal agrarian society, which has slowed down in our eyes, is already fast-paced for many black Africans. And the rhythm of life in industrial society is completely incomprehensible in their eyes.

Of course, with the deepening of globalization, black Africans will also actively or passively catch up with the mainstream ideology of human civilization. Due to the late-mover advantage, the progress of the social system of black Africans will be much faster than that of Western countries, but even if it is ten times faster, it will take at least two or three hundred years to truly integrate with mainstream society. Among them, the study of science and technology is actually relatively easy, but the study of the system is very difficult. China's Westernization movement, which learned from Western technology, was basically a peaceful transition during the period. But the problem is that it is useless to just learn technology, and the entire social concept and political system must also be reformed accordingly, for which the toss is the head of the people, the blood is flowing like a river, from the Wuxu reform to the reform and opening up, all kinds of countless thrilling, every time the consequences of a fork in the road are often unimaginably tragic, it is hard to imagine that Africans will be more fortunate than us - we are going to upgrade from a feudal agricultural society to a modern industrial society, and the historical evolution of Westerners for hundreds of years will be completed in a few decades, it is already so difficult and painful. However, the black Africans have to upgrade from a primitive tribal society to a modern industrial society, and the historical evolution of Westerners for thousands of years will be completed in a few decades, and the difficulty will be at least ten times higher - it is really hard to imagine how many vultures will be surrounded by this way, how many white bones will be paved, how long it will take to get out, or they will not be able to get out at all, and they will directly overturn and fall into hell

Therefore, in my opinion, in order for Africans whose ideology is still in the tribal mode to truly adapt and integrate into modern society, one or two hundred years is already the most optimistic estimate - the system is by no means something that can be digested by copying word for word, for example, the Republic of Haiti in the Caribbean, even if it copies the US Constitution and plays the democratic game for so many years, the black people on the island are still poor?

But the question is, will the population bomb, which is expanding dramatically, still give them a buffer and transition time of one or two hundred years? What's more, even if the ideology of modernization is established, what can it be? Black Africans are neither Chinese nor Arabs, do not have their own unified language, do not have their own unified culture, do not have their own unified market, do not have their own unified political power, and there is simply no way to deal with the crisis as a whole. Of course, some of the more competitive African countries may be able to successfully survive the catastrophe through hard work, and even win benefits from their unlucky neighbors after the catastrophe. Just as among the Asian countries that were colonized by foreign powers in modern times, there was also an outlier such as the Japanese Empire, which rose against the trend. But on the whole, the fate of the two billion black African people can only be compared with that of the Mayans during the collapse of civilization......"

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PS: The editor has a notice, and I hope I will try to write it for another week or so, so Lao Wang will confide in more about what he wants to say in the last few chapters of this one. Because the subject matter of the following book will most likely not involve these profound problems in real society.