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Here's the kind of article I want to read. Articles that are against articles.

I want to meet people who are willing to face 75 years of evidence which comes close to proving that no amount of articulate and well informed conscious raising talk from experts, victims or anybody else is likely to prevent a coming nuclear war. We've tried that already. For 75 years. It's not working. Imho, anybody, including me, who is still engaged in such conscious raising talk is not an expert, or particularly useful.

While the conscious raising talk is very well intended, it's real purpose at this point is to persuade ourselves that we're doing something useful about nuclear weapons by writing articles, when really we are not. We're doing what we like to do, instead of what we need to do.

If there is any hope of escaping a coming nuclear war, it lies not in talk but in leverage. Essential people in our society need to stop being essential. They need to walk off the job. Doctors, nurses, police officers, scientists, critical government workers. Our society is not going to stop hiding in nuclear weapons denial until it is forced to.

Or, we can keep writing ineffective articles while we await the next detonation. Maybe we'll get lucky and the next detonation will be a very limited affair which doesn't crush the modern world. Maybe we'll learn from the next detonation. Maybe it will wake us up. Maybe we'll make real changes. If we're not willing to apply leverage, all we've got instead is just luck.

This is my consciousness raising nuclear weapons article.

Almost nobody will read it.

Probably nobody will comment on it.

For sure, nobody will care that I wrote it.

This post will be ignored, just like all the articles from experts.

This post, and all the expert articles too, will all be ignored because whether they realize it or not, the whole world already knows that articles about nuclear weapons serve nobody but the writer.

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> Does all that seem abstract to you? Does hearing that Trump poses a risk to the world non-proliferation regime numb your brain? Then you too are speeding, drunk and helmetless down a wet highway on your motorcycle.

Donald Trump being involved means this metaphor has to start from “the highway is lava, the motorcycle is on fire, it’s raining blood and locusts, and I’m being gnawed on by feral dogs.”

I am numb to him making things worse because I possess the basic pattern recognition abilities of a concussed goldfish. Of course he’s making [current thing] worse. It’s the only thing he’s ever been capable of.

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