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Bertrand Arthur William Russell,18 May 1872–2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist. In the early 20th century, Russell led the British "revolt against idealism".He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians.With A. N. Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica, an attempt to create a logical basis for mathematics. His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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‘A joy to read' – The Daily Telegraph
'A most beautifully written study which shows Russell at the height of his powers.' – Liverpool Daily Post
About the Author
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a celebrated writer and commentator on social and political affairs.
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47 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Astonishingly ahead of its time, a Crystal Ball of the Future
By Pork Chop
The Impact of Science on Society, by Sir Bertrand Russell - a Nobel
Prize in Literature, and son of Viscount Amberley, and grandson of
the Duke of Bedford, who was Prime Minister for Queen Victoria - is
a work astonishingly ahead of its time, for its 1952 publishing
date. The most important is the so-called Lloyd Roberts Lecture,
given at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, on Nov 29, 1949,
included as the last chapter. overall book.
This work should be required reading in education programs
world-wide, as it crystalizes from a philosophical and rational
point of view, world events from the past several hundred years, in
view of better understanding today's world, and what is to follow
suit next.
Who better than Russell, demonstrating a very advanced ability in
mental gymnastics, digesting entire libraries of literature in that
process and laying out his analysis of the World, and Man's place in
it, and the Future, in 140 pages? This is done entertainingly,
fluidly for readers, with a personal touch.
This work should be purchased and studied by all, because of the
conclusions adopted by the elite of the world, of which the author
and his audience were members.
Everyone should understand that there is an urgency among the elite
to create a One-World government, for various reasons. First, this
is needed to contain nationalist and imperialist urges in various
regions of the world by having a One-World Military.
Secondly, the single government is required to curtail population
growth, in face of limited agricultural production and resources.
The author warns that if the West cannot achieve this in India,
China, Russia, the free world will be overrun militarily,
economically by those populations in the UK, USA and Europe from an
over-populated Asia. I should note that Mao Tse Tung created a
famine, in China, resulting in as many as 38 million (yes, 38!)
casualties from starvation, in the 20 years following the
publication of this book.
Thirdly, raw materials (oil, copper, tin, uranium, etc.) will need
to be rationed and controlled by a One-World government, as they are
finite in quantity. In the past 5 years, oil has risen in multiples
to over $100 per barrel, copper and resources have risen and
mega-acquisitions from Asian and Russian government owned companies
of Canadian and US producers, commonplace.
Fourth, with Darwin on his side, and Malthus, Russell clarifies that
the One World Government, will use scientific methods to cut down
the population, to be carried out explicitly or behind the scenes,
(if birth control is rejected for religious reasons), such as new
twists on the Black Plague (Avian Flu, perhaps?), or contrived world
conflicts r intentional waves of starvation on a global scale,
(pp.129). Unchecked, population numbers destablize a science-based,
prosperous and every-increasing good quality of life. Conversely,
hungry citizens can cause recessions by only buying scarce and
expensive food items, withholding consumption of other items from
their discretionary income, pulling down the economy.
Next, Russell warns against a USA that is export-only based, since
it impoverishes the World. We've seen, accordingly, that the USA has
shown astonishingly high import/export account deficits for the past
30 years, and the manufacturing sector is practically gone
domestically, as the majority of products consumed in USA are now
imported, distributing the wealth globally, as Russell recommends.
As well, taming of natural urges and self-determination is necessary
among school children on a massive scale (Ritalin ?), and violent
nationalist propaganda banned in all schools. Russel also opposes
fanatical creeds being shown to citizens (the Middle East ?)
Russel underlines that either citizens submit to international
authority (so-called Reason) or they will perish and die (pp.96.)
As well, Russell believes that 95% of males and 70% of females are
liekly to be sterilized, so that the elite can use "scientific
breeding" (pp.66) mainly among the totalitarian governments who will
misuse a science for their own purposes, mainly imperialistic.
With non-elected governments, Russell suggests that scentific
societies will impose a special diet and injections into the body of
babies and children under 10 to shape their characters into the
desired citizens that are needed. Through special preparing,
rewarding, and manipulating psychological makeups of humans (through
mental conditioning in schools) critiques of authority, or of those
in power will be impossible, as will be non-desirable thoughts and
behaviors.
In sum, the author must be congratulated for holding back little if
nothing at all to readers, and for giving them his sincere personal
conclusions with a litany of explanations on how those were arrived
at.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
UNDER THE THUMB OF THE ONE WORLD GUV ALL RIGHT
By PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Bertrand Russell's book is a riveting, must-read. It is a very short book that can be read in two sittings, consisting of only three chapters based on three lectures given at Columbia University back in 1950. The descriptive and elucidatory language used in these pages for each chapter is stunningly clear, well-paced, and beautiful, and because the esthetic value of the writing is so high and palpable, it comes as all the more shocking for the unsuspecting reader to learn that the author is no friend of the common man, no friend of liberty, no proponent of individualism (he declares in Chapter Two that the "sturdy yeoman," honest and brave, fighting against the "urban adventurers" who want to rip him off, is a myth) while he is wholeheartedly invested in the rise of a one world order, one world government, and a scientific dictatorship run by "the governing class."
The first chapter is entitled "Science and Tradition." Here, Russell covers the territory of science versus superstition and religion traditions, delineating clearly that science has definitely outbested the latter in observation, in contradistinction to (mere and religious) authority. Science has also outbested religious tradition or superstition in regard to setting forth the autonomy of the real world and having dethroned any sense of "purpose" in the world other than that which goes by the name "efficacious cause." These ideas can be found in any learned author's discussion of modernity and science and are not new. However, Russell wants to add: "[T]herefore admit that men are not all congenitally equal and that evolution proceeds by selecting favorable variations," mentioning meanwhile that the very idea that men are not equal in congenital endowment "becomes dangerous when some group is singled out as superior or as inferior." Some group? Which group? Bertrand Russell will let you know, but then he won't admit the danger any more. Finally, Russell blows a shivering hint that war and science are blighted or fated incestuous twins.
Chapter or Lecture Two is entitled "Effects of Scientific Technique." This is the section that contains the most striking and the most incendiary statements I've yet come across. Reading this section was for me what I imagine reading "Mein Kempf" must have been in the 1930s for readers who didn't know how shocking Hitler's assertions could be when he was alive. If all one has time for is time for one chapter, this is the chapter to read.
Russell starts out, almost like a novelist, laying out the destructive aspects of science. He admits the Industrial Revolution didn't work out very well for "the average happiness" of people both in England and in America, stating the quality of life was "lower than it had been a hundred years earlier." (Curiously, he contradicts himself later stating that only with the rise of industrialism would a peasant not go hungry and not until the rise of industrialism would most of his children not die. How is this state of affairs better than the industrialism that brought "unspeakable misery"?) To further the reader's awareness of the destructive aspects of science, Russell also mentions how agent provocateurs were used, in England at least, to get wage earners denounced and hanged. Here Russell is hinting at the science of persuasion and the technique of getting people to "cooperate." The cotton gin intensified slavery and its cruelty in the United States. The telegraph did much, Russell asserts, to eliminate jobs and increase central control such that, over time, fewer and few men had more and more executive power in governments than was the case formerly. Power stations and airplanes both promoted the growth of government. All of these facts lead Russell to one conclusion: "There will be now no technical difficulty about a single-world empire. Since war is likely to become more destructive of human life [through science and increase in the power of the few] . . . unification under a single government is probably necessary. . . ."
Russell comes right out and states: "We now know that limelight and a brass band do more to persuade people than can be done by the most elegant train of syllogisms. . . . This subject [persuasion] will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship." He goes even further: "Although this science of mass psychology will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated." He writes that he admits he knows that this increase of organization with a ruling class at the top can spawn a tyranny by officials, can establish a lawless police force, and will necessarily curb your freedom, but liberty, both national and individual, will have to be "effectively restrained" -- or else mankind may not survive -- and a means must be found to make men and nations submit to the rule of law.
On the bright side, at least for this middle chapter, the one positive note science brings to the table for mankind is that science makes (certain) men richer.
The third and last chapter is called "Effects of Scientific Technique," and here Russell mentions other positive aspects of science on mankind, like medicine, nutrition and education. However, he doesn't define education well and medicine and nutrition are discussed to make the reader feel warm and fuzzy about mankind's progress through time using science. However, anyone knows that what vaccines were in the Fifties are a hell of a lot different today and what passed for food back in the Fifties no longer resembles today the modern dining table offerings. Russell even goes so far as to assert that "Science can abolish poverty and excessive hours of labor." Has anyone seen science do this? We do know, however, as Russell admits, that agriculture introduced slavery, human sacrifice and large wars into the individual's way of life and raised the standard of living only for a "tiny governing minority."
So, what's the point? The point is "Everything turns on politics" and all aspects of society, including agriculture, "are in the power of vast financial interests that are concerned in manipulating political issues." Thus, "Matters should be arranged so that large groups seldom think it is in their interest to strike." Only the governing aristocracy shall have economic advantage and there must be a world government with a "monopoly of all serious weapons of war [created by science], for nothing else will make peace secure."
To further his warm and fuzzy approach about the coming scientific dictatorship. Russell adds that he loves humanity and it his actual love for humanity that he advocates this scientific dictatorship. This aristocratic, self-interested atheist then actually intones "love, Christian love, or compassion" as a means toward happiness, adding that nationalism or its propaganda will be outlawed in the future in all forms and school children will be "taught" [propagandized] to not "hate and despise foreign nations," although if nationalism is a verboten construction, I don't know how the word "nation" could even arise in that classroom of the future.
This book was the most heinous reading material I've encountered yet on the subject of the New World Order yet it is so prescient about the global governance now occurring in the early 21st century that, even though what's being presented is as horrific as watching Hitler himself eliminate whole groups or populations, you can't avert your eyes. The unpleasant facts are right here, right in front of you -- coming at you all the way from 1951 and 1952 -- and revealed in elegant prose.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Traitor Mathmatician Helps Enslave Mankind
By Brian
Five stars because everybody needs to be familiar with the disturbing contents of the book, NOT because I support the content.
Bertrand Russell was a gifted mathematician and logician of the late 1800's and early 1900's. His "Principa Mathematica" paper developing formal systems in mathematics continues to be cited today 100 years after its publication (although it has since been proven to be an incomplete theorum). There. Let it never be said I didn't give him his due.
Sadly, he goes off the rails at that point. Instead of living an honorable life contributing to society by developing his mathematical theories, Russell instead elected for riches and accolades under the aegis of eugenicist robberbarons J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (among others). At their behest, Russell turned from math and logic to advance degenerate philosophies and social engineering schemes. Chief among these were his contributions to the ongoing Morgan/Rockefeller plan to unify the world into a hegemonic totalitarian oligarchy. Where Napolean and others failed, Rockefeller intended to succeed using the new sciences of psychology (propaganda), genetics (eugenics), and emerging engineering fields. Russell calls this the "scientific dictatorship" (p.32)
The Impact of Science on Society is broken into three speeches Bertrand Russell gave at Columbia University in the early days of the Cold War. These lectures sell his scientific dictatorship as the only reasonable (!!) alternative to certain worldwide nuclear catastrophy. In these speeches, he brazenly details (in glowing, enthusiastic terms) just a few programs this new world order is cooking up for us, including:
1) Mass indoctrination (p.32), which he brags will be capable of "producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black", if that is what rulers wish the public to think. To achieve this, he advocates development of psychology as a tool for controlling masses, noting (p.31): "This study is immensely useful to practical men, whether they wish to become rich or to acquire the government."
2) War against the family: (p.32) "the influence of the home is destructive". After all, Russell opines, to be effective, "not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten".
3) ...And a host of grusome suggestions to achieve global mass depopulation.
Rockefellers and their ilk continue to wield untold influence through their ownership or dominance of the member banks of the Federal Reserve, the "seven sisters" oil cabal, many universities, and a constellation of tax-free foundations and policy-influencing "think tanks", including the Council on Foreign Relations. Close examination of these institutions reveals a concerted and unified effort towards developing a "vertically integrated" world political/economic system -essentially the scientific dictatorship Russell advocates in this book. The players pushing us down this road include: the European Union, NAFTA, CAFTA, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Court, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations. There is little to suggest these banking Elites have wavered from the vision outlined in this book.
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