Where Angels Fear
2 min readSep 10, 2020

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I’ve said it before … the problem is other people:

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

— Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

… and the solution is to eliminate them:

Seriously … the stupid, the venal, they aren’t going away of their own volition, we need to do something about them.

So …

No-one with an IQ below 130 should have a vote.

Everyone who disagrees that the best way to organise a society is that everyone has the same opportunities in Life and has help to achieve them but, instead, favours a dog-eat-dog existence of everyone for themselves and the Devil take the hindmost and/or that begrudging others their luck/success is a substitute for doing something about their own … needs rounding up, throwing in a pit and burying alive — they’re just useless eaters at best … parasites at worst.

The rest of you need a careful eye kept on you at all times to make sure you don’t start thinking and/or doing stupid and/or venal things.

Anything else is just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.

There is no happy ending in which we wake up the sheeple and then everyone sits around the campfire, holding hands and singing ‘Kumbayah’ — at least not one that can be achieved by everyone sitting around the campfire, holding hands and singing ‘Kumbayah’ anyway.

It’s them or us …

So, what’re we gonna do about it?

Here’s a clue: not this …

Red Dwarf s03e03 (‘Polymorph’) — the meeting

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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