Merle -
Despite 3 decades inside the belly of the LANL/DOE/NNSA beast and an
apologist for MAD at least up until the fall of the Soviet Union I am no
fan of Nuclear Power (much less Weapons). Two of my close neighbors are
veterans of the LANL nuclear-waste-disposal industry and *are*
apologists/proponents for that whole business model, but transparently
(to me) based on the way their bread was (and still is) buttered by all
of that. They are otherwise pretty good, positive, hopeful people (as
we first worlders go) but have a blind spot the size of that buttered
bread that means we have no substantially meaningful conversations in
that area.
Holtec and the state/national politics of NIMB are yet another tragedy
of our failed experiments of representative democracy, and manic
hypercapitalism. I do NOT hold utopian hypersocialist or hypercommunist
fantasies, nor have any interest in promoting the myth of the "benign
dictator" either, and am discouraged by how the tug-of-war between
parties and the ideologies they espouse "tramples the grass" (to
mis-quote Glen's inverted signature line).
Spending 2 months traveling/hanging in northern Europe, trying to suss
out how different *that* manic hypercapitalist suite of representative
democracies/societies function (nation by nation, subculture by
subculture, and the EU Federation at-large) with the added parallax of
Brexit and Russia's War on Ukraine and NATO/West's War on Russia's
economy, I am at least mildly hopeless that we (the collective
industrialized West/humanity-at-large) are on any path to resolution of
the looming existential threats that are auto-generated by our
short-sighted excesses. At least not in the modes (primarily political)
we are pursuing.
Anyone here read(ing) Feffer's Splinterlands
<https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/28818724>?
Your organized (global existential threats) meeting in Stockholm in 2019
gave me some new insight and hope in this regard... recently my
re-readings of Bateson... some posts here, and a deeper dive into
Terrence Deacon have been a good distraction if not a hint of an exit
ramp from the blunt hopelessness that too much staring at a problem can
yield.
BTW, I did find the OP in your thread's use of Instagram disingenous in
the way Glen often points out that we oldsters often completely miss the
"appropriate use" of different technologies. I'm sure her intentions
were good, trying to expand the audience for the message or avoid
various (self/other) censoring by platform/channel? But I personally
restrict my use of Instagram to "photoblogging" with text and especially
politically oriented content extremely limited (e.g. I let BLM into my
stream for a day). Among those who fled FB because of it's rampant
politicization, I find many who went to IG to have turned around and
re-injected the same energy. As (??? Kempis/Berra/kabat-zinn/watts/??)
famously said, "no matter where you go, there you are"?
<deleted threadjack tangent reflecting on morphodynamics cum
teleodynamics and the future of humanity/the-biosphere>
- Steve
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