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.@maitlis's new BBC doc about Dominic Cummings discusses his 2005 paper "How Demographic Decline...will sink the European Dream". I idly dug out a copy and it turns out it's quite a terrifying read 15 years on: fantasies about aging populations; about eugenics "re-emerging" (1/3)
(2/3) about pension liabilities. birth rates, and fertility; about "the sort of systemic crisis unleashed by 1929 sweeping civilised government off the European map"; about "a deliberate long-term campaign to alter the moral assumptions of the intelligentsia";
(3/3) about "Muslim immigration"; about "Nietzsche’s predictions for the future western intelligentsia and their role in the collapse of liberal democracy" read through Francis Fukuyama, etc, etc
Watch the doc> bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Read the report> web.archive.org/web/2005121908…
Is it just me, or does something about that logo scream "Bond villain"? Anyway, for anyone who wants to carry on down that particular rabbit hole, Cummings' New-Foundations website - the predecessor to his current blog - is archived and browsable here> web.archive.org/web/2005101811…
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