Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 54 — page 72: what you’re looking at

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in blood. We will fight for the right to go to hell in our own sweet way, and if anyone tries to stop us, then we will take time off from race suicide to kill them first. And so there wiil be war, bitter, savage, but futile. A war which we shall have lost before we even began, for we will be in the position of savages hurling spears at armoured men armed with machine guns, and the end will be the same: utter, humiliat- ing defeat, and we shall be forced to ad- mit the aliens’ super- iority. Then will dawn the new era. We shall no longer be in the position of a small tribe hidden in the jungle. We shall have become part of a vast federation in which we have our rights and our duties, and, as guiding men- tors and watchful guardians, the aliens will dominate our world. There will be no thought of conquest. The aliens will have come as mission- aries, as benevolent dictators, willing and eager to help us, warm with friendship and the desire to do good. Their very intelligence will be our safeguard against exploitation and degradation. They will regard us as wayward children, too long isolated and playing with toys too dangerous for-our own safety. They will embark on a programme designed to benefit us in every way, and they will be deter- mined to carry that programme out. They will be idealists, knowing that their way is the right way, friendly to- wards us and wishing only to do us good. They will be the most dangerous enemies we could possibly find. For what defence is there against a friend? Especially a friend who insists that we do as he says because it will benefit us—and has the force to make that insistence stick. The majority of civilised men and women _ smoke, inhaling nicotine-laden fumes, and nicotine is a poison. Smoking, there- fore, is a stupid, illogical, detrimental thing to do and does us nothing but harm. Stop the manu- facture and sale of tobacco. Drinking is another form of self-poison- ing. Alcohol is foreign to the metabolism; it slows reflexes, dulls the intelligence, weak- ens the censor and can lead to serious internal diseases. Stop the manufacture and consumption of all alcoholic drinks. Our streets are death-traps, filled with vehicles travelling too fast for safety and filling the air with poisonous carbon monoxide fumes. Open fires emit car- bon and_= sulphuric vapours and cause fog and bronchial troubles. Stop the use of cars and prohibit all open fires. The cinema leads to discontent by showing an unreal world of luxury and make-believe. The radio and television . waste precious time which could be spent in education and enlargement of mental horizons. It would be better not to have entertainment, and so force the people to turn to creative pastimes. And soon...andsoon... How long would it be before we lived in a world almost totally different to the one we know? A world run entirely on electricity generated by atomic power. A. world in which narcotics and euphorics were un- obtainable, a planet without a cinema, $44 44454454 WEES 4D Qed $F 435595 *, > & comicloorkesrcom