To: DWW1990
You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you cant justify your existence, if youre not pulling your weight in the social boat, if youre not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it cant be of very much use to yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw also seemed to blame the victims of communist exterminations and purges.
But the most elaborate code of this sort would still have left unspecified a hundred ways in which wreckers of Communism could have sidetracked it without ever having to face the essential questions: are you pulling your weight in the social boat? are you giving more trouble than you are worth? have you earned the privilege of living in a civilized community? That is why the Russians were forced to set up an Inquisition or Star Chamber, called at first the Cheka and now the Gay Pay Oo (Ogpu), to go into these questions and "liquidate" persons who could not answer them satisfactorily
5 posted on
08/09/2015 6:47:27 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: cripplecreek
Interesting to think that Shaw didn’t exactly contribute much (if anything) to society. Math? Nope. Science? Fegedabowdit. Social structures capable of improving life? Nah.
‘Would perhaps proven beneficial to turn that silly little man’s philosophy back on him.
6 posted on
08/09/2015 6:53:19 AM PDT by
Da Coyote
(Di)
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