2000x/Beyond 2000: The Thing Happens (Based on a story by George Bernard Shaw)

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Thing Happens part 1
The Thing Happens part 2

In an England effectively run by seductive Negresses and cunning Orientals, functionaries near the top of the government struggle to deal with the revelation that a very small fraction of the population lives many times longer than the average person.

You know, I honestly cannot recall the last time I read or heard something that included the sentence "If the white race is to be saved, our destiny is apparent."

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Well, Pat Buchanan said something all too similar just recently:

"In demographic terms, more white Americans died in 2012 than were born. Never before -- not during the Civil War bloodletting, not during the influenza epidemic after World War I, not during the Great Depression and birth dearth of the 1930s -- has this happened.

"In ethnic terms, it means that Americans whose forebears came from Great Britain, Ireland and Germany, Southern and Eastern Europe -- the European tribes of North America -- have begun to die.

"The demographic winter of white America is at hand, even as it began years ago for the native-born of old Europe."

etc., etc., oogity-boogity-boo

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Shaw said this? do I haved to read it now?

I don't want to listen ot the radio play

[txanne.livejournal.com]

GBS, okay, of his time...but why would anybody do all that work to make a play out of it IN THIS CENTURY?

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

"scotch logic"

Wait wait, they're not just inscrutable orientals, they're inscrutable tory orientals.

What the fuck am I listening to? Wait, this was really made in the year 2000? Black people can't survive on the east coast of the UK? Wut?

Also: people living to only 60 or 70...wut?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

This was apparently the middle section of Back to Methuselah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Methuselah

In some ways it seems that the central idea here was a precursor of Niven's protectors or Wilson's "second adulthood", and at the end he introduces the beloved SF idea of eventual progression to bodiless energy beings. There's lots there that is queasy-making in a modern context, of course.

[armb.livejournal.com]

I did hear "The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be-will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved" today, but it was written in 1925.