Everybody's Political What's What
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Duration - 16h 28m.
Author - George Bernard Shaw.
Narrator - Graham Dunlop.
Published Date - Sunday, 29 January 2023.
Copyright - © 1944 George Bernard Shaw ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
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. Duration - 16h 28m. Author - George Bernard Shaw. Narrator - Graham Dunlop. Published Date - Sunday, 29 January 2023. Copyright - © 1944 George Bernard Shaw ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:11
CHAPTER I. IS HUMAN NATURE INCURABLY DEPRAVED?
Duration:00:16:37
CHAPTER II. THE LAND QUESTION
Duration:00:43:31
CHAPTER III. THE BRITISH PARTY SYSTEM
Duration:00:39:27
CHAPTER IV. THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE POOR
Duration:00:06:27
CHAPTER V. DEMOCRACY; THE NEXT STEP
Duration:00:17:08
CHAPTER VI. KNOWING OUR PLACES
Duration:00:20:09
CHAPTER VII. EQUALITY
Duration:00:09:15
THE PROPOSED ABOLITION OF CLASSES
Duration:00:27:50
THE STATE AND THE CHILDREN
Duration:00:22:02
SCHOOLMADE MONSTERS
Duration:00:20:16
FINANCIAL MYSTERIES; BANKING
Duration:00:20:03
ILLUSIONS OF THE MONEY MARKET
Duration:00:35:03
SENSE AND NONSENSE ABOUT COMPENSATION
Duration:00:11:46
THE VICE OF GAMBLING ANO THE VIRTUE OF INSURANCE
Duration:00:21:33
THE ILLUSIONS OF WAR FINANCE
Duration:00:16:42
ON WAR AND ITS GREAT MEN
Duration:00:22:41
THE MILITARY MAN
Duration:00:19:12
THE ECONOMIC MAN
Duration:00:20:16
THE EDUCATED
Duration:00:33:02
THE HALF EDUCATED
Duration:00:24:05
THE CORRUPTLY EDUCATED
Duration:00:30:20
THE AESTHETIC MAN
Duration:01:03:45
THE MAN OF SCIENCE
Duration:00:31:03
THE MEDICAL MAN
Duration:00:35:23
ARCHITECTURE A WORLD POWER
Duration:00:10:33
THE THEOCRATIC MAN
Duration:00:11:10
THE COLLECTIVE BIOLOGIST
Duration:00:27:48
THE COLLECTIVE STATISTICIAN
Duration:00:10:36
THE GENETIC STATE
Duration:00:06:16
STATE CORRUPTION
Duration:00:42:31
MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION
Duration:00:40:21
COERCIONS AND SANCTIONS
Duration:00:28:30
LAW AND TYRANNY
Duration:00:19:13
JURIES AND MINISTERS OF GRACE DEFEND US!
Duration:00:13:42
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION VERSUS GENERAL STRIKE
Duration:00:15:22
OUR ATTEMPTS AT ANTHROPOMETRY
Duration:00:32:56
CREED AND CONDUCT
Duration:00:30:06
COLLECTIVE SCOUNDRELISM
Duration:00:12:24
GOVERNMENT BY GREAT MEN, SO-CALLED
Duration:00:19:48
FOR THE REVlEWERS
Duration:00:06:27
ECONOMIC SUMMARY
Duration:00:13:35
POLITICAL SUMMARY
Duration:00:14:03
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY
Duration:00:17:48
ENVOY
Duration:00:07:33
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:14