The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
We have instanced first the fine and distinctive world organisation of
pure science and then the huge massive movement towards co-operating
unity of aim in the economic life until at last the production and
distribution of staple necessities is apprehended as one world
business, and we have suggested that this latter movement may gradually
pervade and incorporate a very great bulk of human activities. But
besides this fine current and this great torrent of evolving activities
and relationships there are also a very considerable variety of other
great functions in the community towards which Open Conspiracy groups
must direct their organising enquiries and suggestions in their common
intention of ultimately assimilating all the confused processes of
to-day into a world community.
For example, there must be a series of groups in close touch at
one end with biological science and at the other with the complex
of economic activity, who will be concerned specially with the
practical administration of the biological interests of the race, from
food-plants and industrial products to pestilences and population. And
another series of groups will gather together attention and energy to
focus them upon the educational process. We have already pointed out in
Chapter Nine that there is a strong disposition towards conservatism
in normal educational institutions. They preserve traditions rather
than develop them. They are likely to set up a considerable resistance
to the reconstruction of the world outlook upon the threefold basis
defined in Chapter Twelve. This resistance must be attacked by special
societies, by the establishment of competing schools, by help and
promotion for enlightened teachers, and, wherever the attack is
incompletely successful, it must be supplemented by the energetic
diffusion of educational literature for adults, upon modern lines. The
forces of the entire movement may be mobilised in a variety of ways to
bring pressure upon reactionary schools and institutions.
A set of activities correlated with most of the directly creative
ones will lie through existing political and administrative bodies.
The political work of the Open Conspiracy must be conducted upon
two levels and by entirely different methods. Its main political
idea, its political strategy, is to weaken, efface, incorporate or
supersede existing governments. But there is also a tactical diversion
of administrative powers and resources to economic and educational
arrangements of a modern type. Because a country or a district is
inconvenient as a division and destined to ultimate absorption in
some more comprehensive and economical system of government, that is
no reason why its administration should not be brought meanwhile into
working co-operation with the development of the Open Conspiracy. Free
Trade nationalism in power is better than high tariff nationalism, and
pacificist party liberalism better than aggressive party patriotism.
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