Where Do The Children Play?
Where Do The Children Play? The population bomb, birthrates and the future of humanity KEITH WOODS When a writer says that he believes that Western civilization is falling he is called a pessimist. Perhaps he is really an optimist. Was it not well for the world that the vile old civilisation of Rome, built upon a tenement-housed population of slaves, passed away? How otherwise could the virile young nations of Christendom have arisen? When we survey the urban civilisations of our own time, with their shoddy cinematograph amusements to stupefy a mass of wage-slaves, just as the circuses of old stupefied the mobs of Rome – with their worship of wealth, their ugliness and joylessness and disease – are we pessimists if we think that Providence soon will make a clear sweep of the mess, and will makes a way for the unspoilt peoples? — Aodh De Blácam, Heroic Ireland The Economist Philip Pilkington wrote an essay on what he called “Capitalism’s Overlooked Contradiction”. He i...