A Modest Proposal for Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness

C.B. is the eminently reasonable and fundamentally crazy civil servant, who, in A modest proposal concludes that secular humanism is the solution to what ails the world. In a biting satire, is C.B.’s shocking plan to rid the world of the “unneeded” divided into three stages, his plan for ultimate population control is in reality a meticulous report of actual proposals and current social trends projected to their terrifying conclusions.