Everybody’s Political What’s What? By George Bernard Shaw
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IS HUMAN NATURE INCURABLY DEPRAVED? 00:00
THE LAND QUESTION 16:49
THE BRITISH PARTY SYSTEM 1:00:20
THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE POOR 1:39:48
DEMOCRACY; THE NEXT STEP 1:46:16
KNOWING OUR PLACES 2:03:25
EQUALITY 2:23:34
THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF CLASSES 2:32:50
THE STATE AND THE CHILDREN 3:00:41
SCHOOLMADE MONSTERS 3:22:43
FINANCIAL MYSTERIES; BANKING 3:42:59
ILLUSIONS OF THE MONEY MARKET 4:03:03
SENSE AND NONSENSE ABOUT COMPENSATION 4:38:06
THE VICE OF GAMBLING ANO THE VIRTUE OF INSURANCE 4:49:53
THE ILLUSIONS OF WAR FINANCE 5:28:09
ON WAR AND ITS GREAT MEN 5:50:50
THE MILITARY MAN 6:10:03
THE ECONOMIC MAN 6:30:20
THE EDUCATED 7:03:22
THE HALF EDUCATED 7:27:27
THE CORRUPTLY EDUCATED 7:57:47
THE AESTHETIC MAN 9:01:34
THE MAN OF SCIENCE 9:32:37
THE MEDICAL MAN 10:08:01
ARCHITECTURE A WORLD POWER 10:18:35
THE THEOCRATIC MAN 10:29:45
THE COLLECTIVE BIOLOGIST 10:57:33
THE COLLECTIVE STATISTICIAN 11:08:09
THE GENETIC STATE 11:14:25
STATE CORRUPTION 11:56:57
MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION 12:37:18
COERCIONS AND SANCTIONS 13:05:48
LAW AND TYRANNY 13:25:01
JURIES AND MINISTERS OF GRACE DEFEND US! 13:38:43
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION VERSUS GENERAL STRIKE 13:54:04
OUR ATTEMPTS AT ANTHROPOMETRY 14:27:01
CREED AND CONDUCT 14:57:08
COLLECTIVE SCOUNDRELISM 15:09:31
GOVERNMENT BY GREAT MEN, SO-CALLED 15:29:20
FOR THE REVlEWERS 15:35:48
ECONOMIC SUMMARY 15:49:23
POLITICAL SUMMARY 16:03:27
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY 16:21:15
ENVOY
Confronted with these facts our sentimental hearthstone vaporing about parental care and me sacredness of the family as the inviolable unit of human society is only an excuse for doing nothing. Elementary civilization is impossible without a moral code like the Ten Commandments, a technique of language, writing, and arithmetic, and a legal code of compulsory behavior completely abolishing individual liberty and free will within its scope. Unless people can be depended on to behave in an expected manner they cannot live in society, and must be either corrected or, if incorrigible, killed. Their life must be mostly dictated and institutional, and mere activities determined and predicable. And somebody must teach me codes to the children. They must be imposed on the child dogmatically until it is old enough to understand them.
They can be imposed in various ways, by merciless whippings of children and cruel punishments of adults as well as by less savage and mischievous methods ; but they must be imposed somehow, or me human world will be an Alsatian madhouse. The necessity is fundamental; and the statesman who imagines that a formula of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, will solve all his problems will discover, if he is capable of learning from experience, that liberty must give way to equality and that fraternity may mean either the fraternity of Cain and Abel or the friendship of David and Jonathan. Children, if they are to grow up as citizens, must learn a good deal that their parents could not teach them even if they had the necessary time. The statesman must make provision for this teaching or he will presently find himself faced with the impossible task of maintaining civilization witl1 savages instead of citizens.
So without law and order, convention and etiquette, there can be no
civilization; yet when these are established there must be privilege
for sedition, blasphemy, heresy, eccentricity, innovation, variety and
change, or civilization will crash again by failing to adapt itself to
scientific discovery and mental growth. Governments have to persecute
and tolerate simultaneously: they have to determine continually
what and when to persecute and what and when to tolerate. They
must never make either persecution or toleration a principle. British
mistrust of principle and logic is rooted in the wisdom of this rule
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