Chapter 103, Political Commissar Guo’s Iron Ambition (Supplement)
"... From my personal perspective, although I consider myself neither a racist nor a religious fanatic, I am certainly not a savior with boundless love. The so-called great unity of the working people of the world, the so-called proletariat ****, not everyone is qualified to call himself a working people, only a proletarian. Only those who are willing to actively accept scientific ideas and become a member of the industrialized state machine are qualified to be regarded as working people: It does not mean that you must be a worker, farmer or engineer, but you must at least identify with this modern society and work in this modern society. In the social system, those who cannot adapt and accept modernity use their hands to feed themselves. In the chemical industrial society, those who rely on relief and welfare to make a living can only be said to be useless people who are of no use to modern society. They are no different from those idle and idle lumpen proletarians. They must undergo strict compulsory education and labor reform. Only then can they be qualified to become a member of the working people - those who do not work cannot eat and are poor People are not the same as working people. No matter how pitiful and destitute beggars and thieves are, they are also targets of the socialist revolution. As for those who rely on violent crimes and inciting anti-scientific superstition to make a living, they are pests that dig into the foundation of modern industrialized countries! , what qualifications do you have to waste the earth's resources alive?
This standard applies not only to foreigners, but also to Chinese people. If the Chinese people at that time had always been warlords and political darkness, if they had been clinging to their own arrogance, clinging to superstitious ideas, and refusing to accept modern industry, if they had always regarded science and technology as miraculous tricks and were unwilling to bow to the West to learn and reform themselves, then they would have been miserable. It’s time to perish under the attack of the Malthusian population trap and foreign invasion!
Although it does not conform to the moral logic of political correctness, the iron-clad cruel reality can never be negated by a few words of young freshmen and false virgins about peaceful times and the dignity of ordinary people. You can still live if you do evil by God, but you can't live if you do evil on your own. The tide of time will never show mercy to any laggard. Just like the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, no matter how much they begged, begged, negotiated, or redressed their grievances, the imperialist powers under the guise of morality, civilization, equality, and human rights would not be inspired to let go of the butcher's knife. In the crisis of population explosion, Struggling Africa, the Middle East and South Asia The third world countries in the world must also find ways to save themselves, instead of sitting and crying about the injustice of God, and then blaming the blame on others. For such scoundrels, I can only say that you are unwilling to save yourself. , and unwilling to die, it’s really embarrassing! ”
At this point, Political Commissar Guo couldn't help but sigh, pondered for a moment, and then spoke again, "...After World War II, the production and concentration of material wealth in industrial society reached such an extent that it caused a certain type of people to There is an illusion that it is normal and natural for people to live, and that people should be happy while living, and will not die prematurely and rot due to resource shortages, innocence, gender, hunger, and disease.
Especially in the years after the Cold War, the illusion of some intellectuals has gone even further, believing that the so-called food, clothing, security, wealth, vacation, and environment are all gifts that are given to people. If they do not enjoy them, it must be the government's fault. As long as Just go to the streets and make a fuss, and you'll have everything.
Moreover, they clearly have not created much wealth, but they rely on their moral voice and various bright banners that seem to be full of truth, goodness and beauty to force others to donate various things, regardless of whether the other party's family can afford it. To be honest, it's not much different from a cult trying to make money.
However, in fact, these so-called kindness and kindness are often the culprits of various disasters. For example, before entering the 20th century, the population of Africa and the Middle East did not explode. It was not because blacks and Arabs could not have children at that time, but because epidemics were prevalent and the infant mortality rate was too high, which could even reach 30% to 60%. As a result, the high birth rate was brought back. However, after World War II, with the advancement of medical conditions and the charity medical assistance of various international organizations, the infant mortality rate in these places suddenly dropped to a few thousandths, but the birth rate did not decrease accordingly, so the population began to seem to be sitting Soared like a rocket. China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China also experienced this process.
However, later we used many painful methods such as family planning to suppress China's birth rate. Africans, Arabs, and Indians did not do this, and the result was that their populations continued to skyrocket, reaching a point where even war and AIDS could not suppress them. For example, the AIDS prevalence rate in Botswana is as high as 40%, and the mortality rate is insane, but this does not prevent its population from doubling every ten years. Countries in the Middle East are obviously at war, but their population continues to grow stubbornly and at a high speed, which is even more shocking.
But the problem is that the levels of medical care, education, and industry must be coordinated and improved to avoid trouble. Simply improving the level of medical care will produce a large number of low-quality and useless people who cannot generate dividends. If the level of medical care and education is improved but industry lags behind, it will neither be able to use modern agriculture to feed the expanding population nor create so many jobs to absorb educated people. In the end, it will trigger unrest on the streets.
Currently, in most third world countries on the planet, both situations exist, and the former is more widespread and more common.
To be honest, nature selects the fittest to survive. Originally, in backward agricultural societies and primitive societies, high mortality and high fertility canceled each other out. However, through the food and medical assistance from international forces, the balance of population growth was broken. On the contrary, it goes against the laws of nature. If they were allowed to stay completely in the pre-industrial era, it would be impossible for so many people to survive on these barren or barbaric lands and further reproduce an exponentially growing population. If the logic of industrialization is fully implemented, the surviving population will be an effective labor force, capable of completing material production that far exceeds its own consumption with industrial efficiency. However, the actual situation is neither of the two, with a rapidly expanding low-quality workforce. The population simply cannot find its place in an industrialized society. Such a large-scale population disaster is caused by irresponsible 'humanitarian aid'.
The scene that will appear next is actually almost doomed. China's thousands of years of history have proven that when the limited land cannot support so many people under certain technical conditions, and foreign aid is cut off for some reason, the cruel fate will use any method to eliminate excess The deformed population, whether it is famine or war, must eventually restore the population to a balanced normal state. ”
"...And this means sending billions to billions of people to see God!" Levi curled his lips, "...Is there really no hope of recovery?"
"...The hope of third world countries overcoming the population crisis...well, I can't say that there is no hope at all, but it is definitely very slim. According to our known experience, only simple and crude family planning or large-scale industrialization can improve the growth rate at the same time." Productivity, while allowing them to return to a reasonable population curve. For example, Iran and Turkey, after industrialization, promoted urbanization through popularization of education, absorbed the rural population into the city, improved their living standards, and reduced the people's desire to have children. Successfully resolved the country's population explosion problem
However, both Iran and Turkey actually have very deep imperial heritage and civilizational roots (the Persian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, plus the aftertaste of the Eastern Roman Empire). In terms of cohesion and execution, they are not the Middle East and North Africa's disguised countries. tribes' can be compared, only in this way can we persist on the road to industrialization. Nowadays, countries in Africa and the Middle East, no matter what political system they adopt on the surface, are actually still feudal or even tribal societies at their core, but they rely on selling resources to feed a lot of people. Their population is not a modern population and cannot find their place in industrial society. What they are facing is actually a 'total crisis' like China's late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, when the entire society is on the verge of collapse and has no other way out! In fact, like the people of the Qing Dynasty who were forced to face "big changes not seen in three thousand years" after being broken into the country by powerful Western ships and cannons, their social evolution process was disrupted by the colonial era, resulting in them still being in primitive tribes. The ethnic groups in society and slave society have since been dragged into this world that is constantly accelerating and have become at a loss. Whether it is colonial aggression, humanitarian aid, or political intervention, they are actually interrupting the self-evolution of these backward societies, making their future increasingly confusing.
Take China as an example. The Chinese people's road to industrialization has been bumpy and bumpy for more than a century. The experience during this period can be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and it was tragic. 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 and a Taiping Peasant War, killing more than 100 million people, before those heads could The rusty feudal literati and bureaucrats had the consciousness to carry out the "Westernization Movement". And this is just a starting point. China's industrialization process will continue from one failure to the next, from a great humiliation to a deeper humiliation. In the end, it was able to break out of the quagmire and move towards success. Even we Chinese ourselves feel lucky.
China, on the other hand, is actually quite rich in capital. It has the largest single nation in the world, an imperial system that has existed for thousands of years, a unified language, a cultural foundation and national self-esteem that is proud of the East, and a vast territory. The total is not small. resources, and a long coastline. Even so, we still shed blood and tears on this road to industrialization, overturned several times in the process, and we were really only half a step away from collapse.
But what about those third world countries that are now facing a demographic crisis? India's industrialization has been relatively successful, but in the eyes of China, the United States and Europe, it is still almost a joke. The Arabs are divided into a bunch of small and medium-sized countries, and they cannot even achieve the most superficial political unity like India. However, they still have the advantage of linguistic and ethnic unity. As for the Africans...well, there is nothing but despair!
If we say that the Arabs are at least civilized people, with a superficial understanding of the country, business, and hierarchical society. Apart from a little bit of religious fanaticism, they can basically communicate with us. Then most black Africans were still in a tribal state a few generations ago and have lagged behind mainstream human society for two to three thousand years. Their basic behavior pattern is still that of "tribal people", not modern people, so they have styles that are quite weird to modern people, such as extreme laziness and just needing to fill their stomachs; such as not abiding by modern laws and rules and just muddle along. Being poor and happy; not having many plans for the future, being extremely free and loose, etc. Because among primitive tribes, tribe members have such a life attitude.
The lifestyle of feudal agricultural society, which in our eyes is already extremely slow and procrastinating, is already fast-paced for many black Africans. The pace of life in industrial society is completely incomprehensible to them.
Of course, as globalization continues to deepen, black Africans will either actively or passively catch up with the mainstream ideologies of human civilization. Due to the advantage of being a latecomer, the social system of black Africans will progress much faster than the independent evolution of Western countries. However, even if it is ten times faster, it will take at least two to three hundred years to truly integrate with mainstream society. . Among them, learning about science and technology is actually relatively easy, but learning about systems is very difficult. The Westernization Movement, during which China learned Western technology, was basically a peaceful transition. But the problem is that it is useless to just learn technology. The entire social concept and political system must also be reformed accordingly. For this reason, heads are rolling and blood is flowing, from the Reform Movement of 1898 to the reform and opening up, there are countless various changes. It's so thrilling, every time I take a side road, The consequences are often too tragic to imagine. It is hard to imagine that Africans will be luckier than us - we are going to upgrade from a feudal agricultural society to a modern industrial society and complete the Westerners' hundreds of years of historical evolution in just a few decades. It has been so hard and painful. However, black Africans have to upgrade from a primitive tribal society to a modern industrial society, and complete the historical evolution of thousands of years of Westerners in a few decades. The difficulty will be at least ten times higher - it is really difficult to imagine that along the way How many vultures will be around, how many bones will it be paved with, how long will it take to get out, or will you not be able to get out at all and just overturn and fall into hell
Therefore, in my opinion, one or two hundred years is the most optimistic estimate for Africans who are still in a tribal mindset to truly adapt and integrate into modern society - the system is by no means perfect. For example, in the Republic of Haiti in the Caribbean, even if it copies the U.S. Constitution and plays the democratic game for so many years, aren’t the black people on the island still impoverished?
But the question is, will the rapidly expanding population bomb give them one or two hundred years of buffering and transformation time? What's more, even if modern ideas are established, what will happen? Black Africans are neither Chinese nor Arabs. They have no unified language, no unified culture, no unified market, and no unified political power. They have no way to respond to the crisis as a whole. Of course, some of the more ambitious African countries may be able to successfully overcome the calamity through hard work, and even win benefits from their unlucky neighbors after overcoming the calamity. Just like the Asian countries that were colonized by foreign powers in modern times, there was also an outlier like the Japanese Empire that 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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