Impact of Science on Society (Hardcover)

~ Bertrand Russell (Author) "Man has existed for about a million years..." (more)
Key Phrases: scientific technique, United States, Western Europe, The Impact of Science (more...)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Ams Pr Inc; 1 edition (June 1953)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0404054668
• ISBN-13: 978-0404054663
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishingly ahead of its time, a Crystal Ball of the Future, December 30, 2007

By	Pork Chop (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Impact of Science on Society (Paperback)

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 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Diseased minds of the power elite , February 26, 2008

By	Alexander Slessor (Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Impact of Science on Society (Paperback)

I give this book 5 stars because it is a nicely rappped package of evidence that should be shown to anyone who doubts what is going on. It is essentially a blueprint for the enslavement of free thinking humanity and a perfect road map for global genocide. Russell is giving us a small look into the diseased mind of the people who have gotten control of the world power apparatus. So if you think this scum bag is smart because he won a nobel peace prize thats good just keep drinking your flouride, worship the government and act cool, or you can join them and help kill your fellow man in order to "save the earth" what u don't want to save the earth awww come on you only have to keep the population below 500 million come on just kill everyone that sounds like fun yea. Give me Liberty or give me Death

8 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read between the lines, April 11, 2007

By	Roscoe "Maximum Rants" (Behind the Zion Curtain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Impact of Science on Society (Paperback)

Sir Bertrand Russell, the articulate, insightful, and brilliant mind-programmer from London's Tavistock Institute does it again. If you understand this intreped misanthrope's place in history, along with his true raison d'etre, then you will understand the context in which this book was written. If you don't understand the frame work in which this book was scaffolded, then that which makes this tome really interesting essentially vanishes, leaving only Russell's literary facility as the hook.