- I don't normally bother commenting on the writings of
columnists like David Brooks, but today I can't help myself.
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- Brooks earlier this week wrote an opinion piece for the
New York Times elaborating on a blog on the site Marginal Revolution, in
which that site's two economists speculated on what would happen if a solar
event instantly sterilized everyone, male and female, on the side of the
earth that was facing the sun at that moment, and if that side happened
to include both the US and Europe.
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- Brooks fretted that if the people of these regions (and
off course South America and Africa, which are on the same half of the
globe, but which Brooks conveniently ignores) were suddenly to realize
they would have no descendants, it would be the end of all "grand
designs." There would, he said, be no more justice, no sacrificing
for the future, no more building of great buildings.
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- Brooks and the authors of this nightmare fantasy took
the view that if the citizens of what Brooks perceives as "Western
Civilization" were to have no hope of offspring, there would within
weeks be an end to all striving.
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- After I finished laughing, I started to think seriously
about the idea.
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- For the rest of this article, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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