Joe-What a novel idea; limiting the power of a troglodyte being able to bring the world to the brink of war. I have come to the conclusion that Biden is a hollow man, professing ideals but acting contrary to those ideals.
That he would take such a courageous step is folly.
That shouldn’t stop you from trying and I’ll certainly support the effort.
This is my open letter to the nuclear weapons experts community, scientists, politicians and other interested parties requesting that they stop sending letters of any kind, because...
This method of communication is a proven failure in accomplishing the stated goal.
In fact, communication and information by any means has been a failure in making the world safe from nuclear weapons. This is proven beyond any doubt by the real world evidence of 75 years of such efforts, which have not led to anything other than a more dangerous planet.
Yes, such efforts are born of good intentions, by good people. But the good intentions do not rise to the level of caring about whether a chosen tactic actually works. And actually, it's a little darker than that, because the deliberate use of known ineffective methods allow the letter writer to feel, and claim, that they are doing something useful, when actually, they are not.
This comment, like all my comments, is part of the same self induced illusion. While I'm writing such words I FEEL like I'm accomplishing something, when I know from long experience that this comment won't be read, and if it is read, readers won't get it, or act on it in any way. I understand the self delusional pointlessness of letters by sending them myself. The letters sent by prominent people are no different, because they too are self delusional, and will accomplish nothing.
All of the above, the longstanding patterns of ineffective behaviors which have consistently failed for 75 years, have to be denigrated, defeated, swept away, and revealed to be impotent, before we can turn our attention to anything new, anything that might have some possibility of working. Such as....
Leverage.
Nobody with any power or influence is applying any form of leverage on policy makers for one simple reason, whatever they might think or say, they don't believe nuclear weapons are a serious issue. Here's evidence of that....
In WWII millions of American families sent their cherished sons off to fight on foreign battlefields, perhaps never to return. Millions of American families put at risk that which was most precious to them because they believed that fascism was a serious threat.
When it comes to the nuclear threat we face today, nobody with any form of power or influence will put anything at risk. Nuclear weapons experts won't risk their professional reputations, the politicians won't risk their careers, and scientists find the idea of going out on strike to be laughable. These aren't bad people. That's not the problem. The problem is that, unlike the American families who sent their sons off to fight and die in WWII, today's cultural leaders...
DO NOT GET IT. But they are sure that they do. And so they are content with an ineffective response to the threat like letters.
There's a question each of us can ask ourselves to discover whether we really get that nuclear weapons are a serious threat. What specifically, what exactly, are each of us willing to put at risk?
In the 1940s American mothers put their children on the line.
Joe-What a novel idea; limiting the power of a troglodyte being able to bring the world to the brink of war. I have come to the conclusion that Biden is a hollow man, professing ideals but acting contrary to those ideals.
That he would take such a courageous step is folly.
That shouldn’t stop you from trying and I’ll certainly support the effort.
Tom
This is my open letter to the nuclear weapons experts community, scientists, politicians and other interested parties requesting that they stop sending letters of any kind, because...
This method of communication is a proven failure in accomplishing the stated goal.
In fact, communication and information by any means has been a failure in making the world safe from nuclear weapons. This is proven beyond any doubt by the real world evidence of 75 years of such efforts, which have not led to anything other than a more dangerous planet.
Yes, such efforts are born of good intentions, by good people. But the good intentions do not rise to the level of caring about whether a chosen tactic actually works. And actually, it's a little darker than that, because the deliberate use of known ineffective methods allow the letter writer to feel, and claim, that they are doing something useful, when actually, they are not.
This comment, like all my comments, is part of the same self induced illusion. While I'm writing such words I FEEL like I'm accomplishing something, when I know from long experience that this comment won't be read, and if it is read, readers won't get it, or act on it in any way. I understand the self delusional pointlessness of letters by sending them myself. The letters sent by prominent people are no different, because they too are self delusional, and will accomplish nothing.
All of the above, the longstanding patterns of ineffective behaviors which have consistently failed for 75 years, have to be denigrated, defeated, swept away, and revealed to be impotent, before we can turn our attention to anything new, anything that might have some possibility of working. Such as....
Leverage.
Nobody with any power or influence is applying any form of leverage on policy makers for one simple reason, whatever they might think or say, they don't believe nuclear weapons are a serious issue. Here's evidence of that....
In WWII millions of American families sent their cherished sons off to fight on foreign battlefields, perhaps never to return. Millions of American families put at risk that which was most precious to them because they believed that fascism was a serious threat.
When it comes to the nuclear threat we face today, nobody with any form of power or influence will put anything at risk. Nuclear weapons experts won't risk their professional reputations, the politicians won't risk their careers, and scientists find the idea of going out on strike to be laughable. These aren't bad people. That's not the problem. The problem is that, unlike the American families who sent their sons off to fight and die in WWII, today's cultural leaders...
DO NOT GET IT. But they are sure that they do. And so they are content with an ineffective response to the threat like letters.
There's a question each of us can ask ourselves to discover whether we really get that nuclear weapons are a serious threat. What specifically, what exactly, are each of us willing to put at risk?
In the 1940s American mothers put their children on the line.
What are we going to do?
More letters?