It’s a slim hope for humanity but a real one. We’re approaching 80 years without a nuclear war.
In 1945, we dropped atomic bombs on two cities in the closing of a big fat war. Since then, countless states decided they too needed nukes, because on the international stage it’s still about power and not ethics.
But nukes have been in the hands of idiots, genuses, cold calculators and red hot fanatics. And yet not a one launched in aggression.
The Trump administration revealed a thing, that its the underlings, the deep state that has made sure that every close call only got close, but the last switches never got connected. It’s the rest of us, on whom war hawks and capitalist plutocrats depend who can delay, obstruct or sabotage the self destructive tendencies of our masters.
It’s no guarantee we’ll survive the climate crisis, the plastic crisis or the rising takeover of the transnational white power movement. But that’s where the good guys have power to change the course of history.
Have you ever read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser? I’ve never read anything that made feel so terrified and hopeful at the same time. The number of close calls (that we know about) that we’ve had but, cooler heads (or random chance) saved us at the last moment is both horrifying and grounds for having a fair amount of faith in most people to do the right thing with these things.
Of course, the amount of times we were saved by random ass chance is absolutely terrifying.
It’s a slim hope for humanity but a real one. We’re approaching 80 years without a nuclear war.
In 1945, we dropped atomic bombs on two cities in the closing of a big fat war. Since then, countless states decided they too needed nukes, because on the international stage it’s still about power and not ethics.
But nukes have been in the hands of idiots, genuses, cold calculators and red hot fanatics. And yet not a one launched in aggression.
The Trump administration revealed a thing, that its the underlings, the deep state that has made sure that every close call only got close, but the last switches never got connected. It’s the rest of us, on whom war hawks and capitalist plutocrats depend who can delay, obstruct or sabotage the self destructive tendencies of our masters.
It’s no guarantee we’ll survive the climate crisis, the plastic crisis or the rising takeover of the transnational white power movement. But that’s where the good guys have power to change the course of history.
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Have you ever read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser? I’ve never read anything that made feel so terrified and hopeful at the same time. The number of close calls (that we know about) that we’ve had but, cooler heads (or random chance) saved us at the last moment is both horrifying and grounds for having a fair amount of faith in most people to do the right thing with these things. Of course, the amount of times we were saved by random ass chance is absolutely terrifying.