How much goes to the welfare, or how equal the people are?What is this Social Justice of which you speak?
The one which is making people riotWhat is this Social Justice of which you speak?
Glen
Moderator
The post-Population War world saw the rise of the International Movement for Peace (IMP) which had its origins in several local movements in nations who over the past few centuries had rarely known it, particularly the United States of Mexico and the German Empire. In some ways Germany and Mexico had much in common, both large nations that had known the back and forth of war and yet had strong strains of valuing freedom and liberty (though they had also known darker movements from within). As they learned of each other in the increasingly international press, they merged to form the International Movement for Peace. Some of the first nations to embrace this Germano-Mexican initiative were former strongholds of Malthusianism in the previous war. With the Malthusians purged from those nations (sometimes by their own hand) the surviving opposition forces of these nations, now in leadership positions as occupation gradually subsided by the end of the 1940s, sought a new touchstone for re-entering the international community and many found the International Movement for Peace as part of that route back to normalcy and prosperity, such as the Lowland nations and India. While some critics were concerned that the IMP might be yet another international extremist organization, the movement found a patron in the heir of the German Empire, himself a war hero, who sought to assuage such fears by urging the Human League to coop the IMP into the emerging system of world relations.
Glen
Moderator
I am gratified that you have enjoyed binging the DSA and of course, the great planet Minerva! More is coming!!
Finally caught up on the population war and its aftermath. Good stuff, as ever, although parts of the war felt a wee bit rushed.
I really like the fact that this TL strives to do more than just wars, battles and politics. Your attempts to bring to life alternate religious developments, science, music, culture and even holiday traditions help make this TL more than so many others.
Keep up the good work, and I commend you for not getting drawn into discussions on OTL's politics!
I really like the fact that this TL strives to do more than just wars, battles and politics. Your attempts to bring to life alternate religious developments, science, music, culture and even holiday traditions help make this TL more than so many others.
Keep up the good work, and I commend you for not getting drawn into discussions on OTL's politics!
Glen
Moderator
Thank you for your patronage - what would you have liked to have seen more fleshed out?
Thank you - I have tried to make this about true world building and following where possible the changes that can grow into interesting differences.
I shall strive to do so!
Thanks though you should see my facebook page (well even that isn't too bad)!
Glen
Moderator
LIFE LOVERS LEAGUE
The Population War had left many War Orphans on both sides of the conflict. In the post-war years, there was a backlash against the draconian Malthusian approach to population and parenthood, as well as the tendency of some of the less ideologically pure Malthusian Manifesto forces to use population control as a cover for suppressing 'unwanted' groups within their countries. Anti-Malthusian activists, foremost among them Maggie May Thatcher, spearheaded the effort to place children of the war with good families on a global basis.
The Life Lovers League promoted the ideal of matching children with people who could provide good homes regardless of ethnicity, creed, or who they loved. Those against biphilic and homophilic peoples tried to paint the Life Lovers League as an attempt to normalize 'unnatural' relations and make people forget that Malthusians had promoted hemophilia as another means of population control. While some of these were labeled reactionaries and crypto-Korsgaardians, even more enlightened groups had reservations regarding this approach. For example, the Catholic Church was one of the more challenging groups for the Life Lovers League in that they did not support placing orphans from Catholic families with non-Catholics, and in fact had their own very active charities in Europe and Latin America for orphans. A compromise with the Catholics and other similar groups was to make a good faith effort to match adoptees first with first families that were of the same faith, then those who would commit to raising the child in their birth faith. By this approach the Life Lovers League was able to gain support from most mainstream faiths and charities. Maggie May Thatcher remained a very effective force. In later decades the triple L also helped many women who found themselves pregnant in unfortunate circumstances with support through their pregnancies and finding good homes for their children as an option to first term terminations of those pregnancies.
One odd footnote in the early history of the Life Lovers League was that there were several families of colour in the Dominion who adopted European war orphans in an effort to 'lighten' the family...
The Life Lovers League seems to be a Pro-Life version of Planned Parenthood. Unless I'm completely misreading them.
Glen
Moderator
More or less - they promote adoption over abortion, contraception over abortion. While abortion is stigmatized it is not illegal, at least in the first trimester.
This sentence makes it sound like Germany and Mexico merged into one country called the International Movement for Peace. But everything else, including the IMP's name, make it seem like that was a misreading on my part. Could you clarify what exactly the International Movement for Peace is, and how it's organized (if it's organized)?Glen said:
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Glen
Moderator
Prior to the Population War, several Malthusian inspired apocalyptic fictional works had featured the horror of cannibalism. While over-population hysteria had become unpopular in the Post-Population War era, the public had acquired a taste for such horror and found satiation for this in the rise of the Hungry Dead genre.
Three major kinee series in the 1940s and 1950s really defined the Hungry Dead movement. The first was a British-Southron collaboration that was a more scientifically based horror kinee "The Rabid" which also played on classic British fears of rabies. While the first Rabid kinee was set in Great Britain as the outbreak of a new strain of rabies creates the Rabid (and unlike other Hungry Dead series also featured hungry dead animals of all sorts), subsequent kinees in the series often were set in the DSA depicting a world-wide outbreak. While technically not 'dead', the infected in subsequent kinees of The Rabid series, perhaps reflecting on the popularity of other Hungry Dead series, were shown to be gradually decaying (akin to what was classically depicted for lepers). The Rabid had the appearance of the dead and for most of the series past the original kinee there were no practical distinctions from other Hungry Dead kinees (though the 'dead' of The Rabid series often were also depicted as being fast moving threats compared to their more mythic counterparts).
Another series that eventually found a home in the kinee industry of San Diego was initially a foreign kinee from Scandinavia. Entitled "Draugar" in the original Scandinavian creation and loosely based on the old Scandinavian myths of the again walking dead, when imported to the English-speaking world instead of trying for a direct translation a clever play on words and inspired by the ponderous movements of the mythic horrors depicted in the kinee, the English title for the kinee and the subsequent series was "The Draggers." The Draggers series was among the first to depict the hungry dead arising from their graves to feast on the living.
Made around the same time as Draugar (and there is some controversy still as to whether there was 'borrowing' of ideas from one or the other kinee) was a French-Ottoman collaboration entitled "The Curse of Ishtar." The Curse of Ishtar had the stronger backstory though the make-up and kinematography of Draugar was more lauded. In The Curse of Ishtar, French academics digging in the Ottoman Empire disturb a 'secret temple' dedicated to Ishtar, ignoring the curse protecting the temple.
"If you open the gate,
I shall raise up the dead and they shall eat the living:
And the dead shall outnumber the living!"
In the French translation the word ghoul is used to refer to the Hungry Dead, and the later series was referred to as the "Ghoul" series. The Curse of Ishtar gained a cult following in the Francophone minority of the northern United States and "Ghoul" kinees in future were often Franco-American collaborations as the USA worked to compete with the kinee powerhouse out of Albion.
After the 1950s many horror stories used the terms 'dragger' and 'ghoul' interchangeably though in general ghoul was more popularly used in the USA and dragger in the DSA (with rabid being more a subgenre).
Three major kinee series in the 1940s and 1950s really defined the Hungry Dead movement. The first was a British-Southron collaboration that was a more scientifically based horror kinee "The Rabid" which also played on classic British fears of rabies. While the first Rabid kinee was set in Great Britain as the outbreak of a new strain of rabies creates the Rabid (and unlike other Hungry Dead series also featured hungry dead animals of all sorts), subsequent kinees in the series often were set in the DSA depicting a world-wide outbreak. While technically not 'dead', the infected in subsequent kinees of The Rabid series, perhaps reflecting on the popularity of other Hungry Dead series, were shown to be gradually decaying (akin to what was classically depicted for lepers). The Rabid had the appearance of the dead and for most of the series past the original kinee there were no practical distinctions from other Hungry Dead kinees (though the 'dead' of The Rabid series often were also depicted as being fast moving threats compared to their more mythic counterparts).
Another series that eventually found a home in the kinee industry of San Diego was initially a foreign kinee from Scandinavia. Entitled "Draugar" in the original Scandinavian creation and loosely based on the old Scandinavian myths of the again walking dead, when imported to the English-speaking world instead of trying for a direct translation a clever play on words and inspired by the ponderous movements of the mythic horrors depicted in the kinee, the English title for the kinee and the subsequent series was "The Draggers." The Draggers series was among the first to depict the hungry dead arising from their graves to feast on the living.
Made around the same time as Draugar (and there is some controversy still as to whether there was 'borrowing' of ideas from one or the other kinee) was a French-Ottoman collaboration entitled "The Curse of Ishtar." The Curse of Ishtar had the stronger backstory though the make-up and kinematography of Draugar was more lauded. In The Curse of Ishtar, French academics digging in the Ottoman Empire disturb a 'secret temple' dedicated to Ishtar, ignoring the curse protecting the temple.
"If you open the gate,
I shall raise up the dead and they shall eat the living:
And the dead shall outnumber the living!"
In the French translation the word ghoul is used to refer to the Hungry Dead, and the later series was referred to as the "Ghoul" series. The Curse of Ishtar gained a cult following in the Francophone minority of the northern United States and "Ghoul" kinees in future were often Franco-American collaborations as the USA worked to compete with the kinee powerhouse out of Albion.
After the 1950s many horror stories used the terms 'dragger' and 'ghoul' interchangeably though in general ghoul was more popularly used in the USA and dragger in the DSA (with rabid being more a subgenre).
Glen
Moderator
It's a transnational organization for the promotion of peace between nations. Think of it as an international movement that has both political and governmental support.