Eloi and Morlocks

In this piece, I’m going to draw parallels between H. G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ and our current society.

‘The Time Machine’ featured the Eloi and the Morlocks as 2 fictional species of humans existing on Earth in the distant future. The premise of the book is that humanity has evolved into these 2 very different species. The Eloi group live a charmed life of plenty above ground. The Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing, and inventory for the Eloi. As such, the Eloi do not perform much work. Their only activities are to feed, play, and mate

With all their needs and desires perfectly fulfilled, the Eloi have slowly become dissolute and naive. They are a peaceful, childlike group possessing no inherent sense of danger. The Eloi are unable to protect themselves. The Morlocks are bigger, stronger and more aggressive than the Eloi. Periodically, the Morlocks capture individual Eloi for food.

In short, the Eloi are a high trust group, and the Morlocks are a low trust group.

I sometimes feel that what is happening to Europe has parallels with The Time Machine. A high trust group of people is being asked to co-exist with a low trust group of people. This is causing the high trust group – us, the Europeans – to start being more distrustful as we react to the changing environment in which we now live.

The groups being imported into Europe, in ever increasing numbers, come from low trust societies. The low trust levels are linked to the cultures of the countries from which they arrive, countries with high corruption levels; high crime rates and the high levels of sexual violence, mainly against women. As a result of these cultural traits, levels of social trust is low in these countries. . People in low trust societies do not care about their neighbours or communities. They are much more likely to put themselves first. Litter and vandalism run rampant in such communities. Voluntary work is unheard of (unless performed by ‘white saviours’). People believe that Governments and those associated with government institutions are simply feathering their own nests. Bribery is rife. Such people grow up expecting to be ripped off by their fellow countrymen. They tend to think in terms of gaining an advantage over their fellow man. They witness high levels of crime and corruption and feel they would be naive not to join in since everyone else us on the take. It’s a dog-eat-dog life.

Knowing that an un-chaperoned woman is fair game, the men in such societies keep a much tighter rein on their sisters and wives. The women, particularly sought-after women in their prime, must be protected. As such, women’s opportunities for going out on their own becomes greatly limited in low trust societies.

In contrast, many European countries have developed into high trust societies. The Scandinavian countries used to be particularly famous for their high trust levels. This is partly why these countries were perceived as being highly civilised. People looked after their neighbours and communities. Community groups existed and people looked out for each other. Crime levels were low. Women enjoyed high levels of autonomy. Corruption was perceived as something rare. People felt that governments were looking after the best interests of the people. Europeans were surrounded by positive role models in the form of philanthropists and Christians. We didn’t grow up feeling that everyone was trying to rip us off.

However, 30 years ago, European politicians started importing high numbers of people from low-trust countries into Europe. The effect of this has been escalating levels of crime, violence and sexual assault of women in Europe over this timeframe.

Despite the attempts of the European governments and media to hide these unpalatable truths, the facts are becoming impossible to avoid. Individual rapes are easy to cover up but large scale sexual assaults are harder to hide. In the UK, Asian grooming gangs have operated with impunity across the length and breadth of the country, with the authorities feeling it would be impolite to draw attention to it. In Germany over 1,200 women were sexually assaulted in a single night.

Gradually, Europeans are waking up to the fact that their countries have changed. Europeans now need to take more precautions to protect themselves from people who do not share the same cultural background. Europeans can see that their countries are changing and not for the better. Europeans are slowly changing from high trust to low trust.

It is in this context that protests against the ever increasing numbers of illegal migrant males coming from the global south have erupted in Liverpool. The spark for this overflow of anger was a circulated video that showed an adult Asian migrant propositioning a 15 year old school girl. Liverpool is just one place where people have had enough of the sexual threat that women and girls now face.

And how did the liberal left respond to anger from British people about the dangers that we now face? These tweets from Owen Jones reveal the Left:

Jones acknowledges that male violence against women is increasing. However, he refuses to accept there is a race aspect to such attacks. In fact, he implies this increase is coming from white men. Jones’s position is that certain ‘right wing’ groups are using the increasing vulnerability of women as an excuse to attack migrants. The wilfull blindness here is off the scale. Jones’ left wing ideology is that all people, wherever they come from, are just like us and anyone who says otherwise is simply causing trouble.

Jones continues to ignore the realities crashing all around him. However, most Europeans have woken up to the increased risks they face. I am sure that, today, most European women are taking more robust precautions to protect themselves when they go out than they would have done 10 years ago. European men also appreciate that their wives and sisters are more at risk than they were.

Europeans were turning into Eloi. We were too trusting to exist as we were amongst people who were easily able to take advantage of us. Thanks to heavy doses of shock therapy, we are fast turning into Morlocks. We won’t be as happy, or as caring, as we used to be, but we have no choice if we want to survive in a globalised world.