But someone who has lived in the 20thcentury, like me, would find remarkable exaggerations in the historical overview of the problematic areas of our times. In any case, what I saw prevailing today is a “sense of liberation” due to the reassurance that “the worst has finally passed” and that those dark times will never come back. This era is characterised by an “exalted soul”, a high morale, a deep faith that keeps them morally armed and prepared to fight and sacrifice to defend their current institution if ever such a risk were presented again.
THE “PHANTOM OF NUMBER” AND SUBSEQUENT BIRTH CONTROL
9-VTremendous clashes have taken place, especially after the 21stcentury of the Christian chronology, no longer regarding the world trade and the global industrial supply, the ports and the domination of the seas and the “areas of consumption” or the once sought after “energy sources”- which, up until the 20thcentury, were the main objective of the foreign and economic policy of the great powers at the time, but for whole different reasons. The cause of those clashes was the criteria that would be established and applied among the various tribes and nations, relating to birth and population control and the “replacement rates” that should be allocated to each race and also the wording of the corresponding legislative texts that were to be voted by international parliamentary assemblies and implemented later by the global institutions of power.
Racial discrimination was, of course, not tolerated by people, at least on these issues, and so they didn’t have to keep highlighting the principles of humanity and the value of “equality” in the spiritual entity of man. However, what once existed and was applicable in the years of “comfort of space and number”, now had to be desperately fought for since they were well aware of the fact that times had changed and that it was now a matter of survival or extinction. A terribly hazardous situation had now arisen: extensive famines had occurred, mainly in the poorest nations in Asia and Africa, and millions of children were starving and dying, tormented by poverty. But even the industrialised countries of Europe had seen the shadow of malnutrition spreading over them. And because of that, social and political upheavals occurred frequently throughout the world.
The Baltic peoples together with the Slavs, Scandinavians, Germans, Latinos, Greeks, Walloons, Flemish, the Anglo-Saxon and a part of Indians and Israelis had a common front contrasting the above arguments for “humanism” to the “unpostponable need for action” for humanity and therefore shaking the edifice of civilisation their ancestors had carefully built.
This need had become extremely pressing and tight like a noose, a noose more and more ruthless and suffocating and this created a terrible contradiction between theory and practice. As the decades went by, one could clearly see that it was no longer only a matter of food sufficiency but also adequacy of space and that the “phantom of the number”, this once unprecedented and unknown terror, this new nightmare that soon came to completely cheapen and demean the value of the human being and to eliminate in its own way–its way being the decline in quality that follows any “inflation”—all hitherto achievements of humanity.
There came times when the ancient law of the jungle defeated the principles of early civilisation. The unfortunate coloured races were finding themselves in a disadvantaged position in all the confrontations, despite their unparalleled numerical superiority, because they once had faith in international laws and had left their strongest weapons in the warehouse of a central federal authority, that is, essentially in the hands of the whites, who always got the majority of votes in global institutions. Another cause of their disadvantage was their inability to effectively cope with new discoveries in the field of mass destruction weapons and the “scientific” conduct of war. Thus, one could see very old, primitive impulses and instincts reviving, even temporarily.
We, the people of the 19thand 20thcenturiescannot conceive how huge and intractable a problem it will be for us in the future to find, an empty and permanent place in that colossal “human organism” called earth and to integrate ourselves into it and manage to live our lives.