"It is certain that, in the material joys that can be given by English grey shirtings, American drills, brandy and kerosene oil, these people are really behind the age; whilst of joint stock companies in Perak, Arizona, or Wall Street, New York, they have not yet one single thought."
Everat Frazier, Korea (1893)*
A century later, it appears that Koreans have thoughts of very little besides "material joys." I mean Koreans south of the DMZ, where they are at liberty to swill "material joys" and sweep up the windfall profits of autogenocide. Unlike their backwards forebears, today's Koreans lead the world in sterility, each of their woman now squeezing out less than three-quarters of a child. Thus each coming generation will be only 35 percent of the generation before it, and in less than two centuries a geriatric Korean janitor will jingle his keys and turn out the lights.
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