War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

every man was partly a nutcase and partly a little boy;

good heavens, how can you compare us with that outmoded Human Age with its ponderous, finicky and useless fuss that went by the name of culture, the arts, pure science, and what have you! Real, self-assured Newt Age people will no longer waste their time meditating on the Essence of Things; they will be concerned solely with numbers and mass production.

The world’s entire future lies in a continually increased consumption and production - so we need even more Newts to produce even more and consume even more.

This int far from modern economists theory

their silence is terrifying. I fear their incomprehensible reserve.