Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other peoples. Jim But bad times, you say, are exceptional, and can be dealt with by exceptional methods. This has been more or less true during the honeymoon period of industrialism, but it will not remain true unless the increase of population of the world is enormously diminished.... War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued through each of the world wars. [War] has been disappointing in this respect... but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread through the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.... The state of affairs may be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other peoples. ~ Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science Upon Society (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953), pp. 102-104.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 21:42:10 +0000
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