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Evelyn Waugh satire made real!!!
In Waugh's BLACK MISCHIEF a fictionalized African country is taken over in a coup by a new king, and Englishman Basil Seal travels to the country to get in good with the ruling elite and help direct the nation's modernization.
One of the major policies implemented is contraception and to encourage its use a "Contraception Ball" is organized and posters are put up around the villages.
The poster shows two families:
1) The first family shows a man sitting at his table eating with young, wild children all over the place, and his wife hunched over laboring in the fields.
2) The second family shows a man sitting at table with his wife and a single well-behaved boy.
The poster tells them that by using contraception they can have the better family as their own.
The natives all decide that they will use contraception now because clearly one family is more desirable than the other...
... family #1.
"Look at this family with the woman eating her husband's food. And he has had only one child. We'd much rather use contraception and have that family with many children to show our prowess and have our wife working in the fields where she belongs."
Frightening how something so outlandishly satirical could become reality like this.
God, damn Planned Parenthood.
Well, I dunno. I find, generally speaking, that the few Planned Parenthood people there are at a party, the merrier it is.
How about something like:
Planned Parenthood: Because the idea of YOU having kids is revolting.
or
Planned Parenthood: We hate you all.
That really hits close to home because Nigeria is my homeland. I am very sick to my stomach to see Planned Parenthood using these tactics to wrap innocent people in. Sure we are poor, but our family is the way we survive, it's our lively-hood. We cannot do without that communion.
Thomas,
As to the add with the big family vs. the one child family, I often find the opposite is more often the real scenario. People with lots of kids tend to be more generous overall and have a sense of proper right and wrong and are willing to enforce that on their children. Those with one child, usually only want one child so as to minimize interference in their lifestyle and some lack overall a proper moral understanding (they use contraception after all), thus their child is not well behaved.
Matt, as we know, the poor are always, make that always, proportionately more generous than the rich.
Matt, you're preaching to the choir. The whole point of Waugh's satire was to show the desirability of the large family over the contraceptive-mentality and the arrogance and stupidity of the secularized West.
That really hits close to home because Nigeria is my homeland. I am very sick to my stomach to see Planned Parenthood using these tactics to wrap innocent people in. Sure we are poor, but our family is the way we survive, it's our lively-hood. We cannot do without that communion.
phil Onochie | 12.10.07 - 10:19 am | #
Phil---I feel your pain. Planned Parenthood is the symptom of elements of our culture which places man as god, a selfish and self serving being unto himself.
Phil,
I was in Nigeria a little over a year ago on business. I was shocked to see in Lagos that Planned Parenthood had a huge office building but all around were people who were starving and living in the filthy streets.
Their money would be better spent if they took it and used it to improve agriculture in Nigeria.
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