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Anton explained that the family book pointed out in detail the reason for the rule. It was written that if the peasants were allowed to develop, to become proud and educated, the day would soon arrive when they would resist to being deprived of the fruits of their labor, which would endanger the entire nobility, should such a trend develop. For this reason the laborers were to be treated like cattle. Their numbers were to be controlled, just like one culls a heard of cows.
"I am Antonovna Valentina Lisitov," said Anton. "I am ashamed of my family's history. It saddens me. But I am also a human being. I am one of humanity, and as such, I have the same type of shame to bear, and a far worse sadness to endure, and the reason for this shame lies not in a distant history, but lies in what is happening now on a global scale."
She paused to give the audience time ponder.
"As my ancestors threatened their peasants, so the modern oligarchy still treats much of humanity. As my great grandfather culled the size of his peasantry with diseases and poverty, so does the modern oligarchy impose conditions for depopulation by the same method. Africa was one of the first to be so targeted. The result is that its diseases, like AIDS, are now spread around the world where they infest the population globally in ever-greater numbers. AIDS all by itself, if kept unchecked, has the potential to become a species threatening disease in the not too distant future. And this is only one aspect in which my family's sins are still perpetuated by the masters of this clan of high-minded aristocrats.
"Just as my ancestors were concerned about the 'excessive' self-development of its workers, so are today's oligarchs concerned with shutting down humanity's 'excessive' scientific and technological development by all available means. The modern commitment is dumb down education, to inhibit the development of independent thinkers, to inhibit science itself and to abuse it for destructive purposes. This type of commitment also includes dummying down the major languages, to simplify them in order that people become largely unable to think in complex terms and pursue complex issues. It has even been suggested by a prince of the aristocrats, Bertrand Russell, that the brightest of the population who exhibit the greatest promise and an exceptional intelligence in spite of the constrains, should be recruited by the aristocracy, or failing that, be killed as fast as possible, or be otherwise neutralized.
"Not surprisingly, the effect of this antihuman drive, biologically, economically, and socially, has been devastating. If the development drive that had put a man on the moon, had continued uninterrupted, and had been spread globally, our planet would presently support twenty-five billion people with a standard of living equal to the highest the USA has achieved in its entire history. Instead the planet has become a sewer of dying continents, impoverished populations, shattered dreams, destroyed industries, and a devolution of health care amidst a global proliferation of evermore exotic diseases.
"This destruction of humanity has been the brainchild of the Wells/Russell policy axis of pure evil, the utopian new world order, the new fascist world emporium to be governed by a single power under the rule of the oligarchy for the purpose of forcing sill more poverty and depopulation on humanity."
There was some murmuring in the audience when Anton said this.
"I am not joking. This is real," said Anton.
In response to the murmuring, Antonovna spoke about a personal experience on visit to America, some years ago. She had been invited to an American family that had made its fortune first through slavery and dope, and in later years through a retail empire. Anton said, that she was surprised that there, too, in the United States of America, in modern times, the same mentality that lay beneath the old and new imperial rule prevailed still as openly as it did. She said that the beliefs of the people she had visited were psychologically imposed upon them by the type of class that they belonged to, just like it had happened to her own family in Russia. "It was their class struggle, as it were," she said. "They regarded me as one of their kin, because of my name, and expected me to endorse their belief structure which had been redressed into an environmental issue. The lady of the house spoke of humanity as cockroaches that destroy the environment, that breed like cockroaches and overpopulate the world. 'We must squish a whole bunch of them dead to protect the Earth,' she had said with a sigh. 'This may be ugly, but it must be done.'"
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