H.G. Wells and M. Sanger versus T. Kaczynski

Totalitarians are dangerous, but they are not as clever as their opponents fear them to be.

H.G. Wells wrote an introduction to Sanger’s Pivot of Civilization, including the passage:
“The New Civilization is saying to the Old now: “We cannot go on making power for you to spend upon international conflict. You must stop waving flags and bandying insults. You must organize the Peace of the World; you must subdue yourselves to the Federation of all mankind. And we cannot go on giving you health, freedom, enlargement, limitless wealth, if all our gifts to you are to be swamped by an indiscriminate torrent of progeny. We want fewer and better children who can be reared up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.”

H.G. Wells was clever, but not nearly as clever as he thought himself to be.

H.G. Wells did not fathom the tremendously contagious, self-sustaining, spontaneously spreading power of hatred. Humans can hate each other for any reason, or for no reason at all. Seemingly rational, progressive, civilized humans can suddenly generate full-blown hatreds of their fellow humans.

We might very well abolish nationalist governments in order to enjoy a Hobbesian war of All against All, rather than a utopian World Peace.

And even if World Peace were established — even if the frightening masculine culture of Patriarchy were to be abolished — even if we were all forced to be politically correct and vegan — a single super-empowered individual, with the ethics of Kaczynski and a DNA sequencer, could unleash a plague that would throw everything into confusion.