All the minutia
that comes to mind seems so trivial compared to the reality of the Russian
invasion of Ukraine.
I can’t
bring myself to post on DIY, gardening, recipes, or any of the other bullshit
that occupies my thoughts at four-in-the-morning.
However, I
will add one more blow to the dead horse – I have posted it time and time again. It is
my CASSANDRA WARNING.
Sometimes it is the things you can not see
that are the most dangerous: the crocodile in the water, the cobra in the grass,
the lion in the bushes; the narcissistic, paranoid old man, experiencing senile
dementia, with the sole authority and ability to execute world extinction with
the turn of a key and push of a button.
The two
super powers, Russia and the United States, each have the nuclear capability of
killing every living creature on the planet earth – many times over.
The only safeguard
has been the thought that the single person in charge of the nuclear capability
of world destruction would be sane and responsible.
Look at the
human race. Consider Trump, Putin,
religious extremist, or even some junior military computer nerd standing watch
in a nuclear silo and realizing he can override the fail-safes
We have seen
the result of two nuclear bombs, and the melt down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant; now multiply those times a thousand.
It is not
climate change, or plagues, or asteroids that will be the cause of the Sixth
Extinction. It is mankind and nuclear weaponry.
Old man
yells at clouds
the Ol’Buzzard
I certainly wish you were wrong.
ReplyDeleteKeep yelling at the clouds, old man! Someone has to.
ReplyDeleteI'm enough of a pessimist to think mankind driving itself into extinction won't be as neat and easy as a thermonuclear war. I think we're going to off ourselves slowly with pollutants, destroying ecosystems, and ignoring climate change. As for Putin pushing buttons in the immediate future, I'm thinking the combination of incompetence and corruption that characterizes Russia in general is going to prevent one psychopath in the Kremlin from doing much. The Russians were too cheap to put decent tires on their military equipment (one of the factors slowing them down has been the low budget tires on wheeled vehicles blowing out) so what makes anyone think they've bothered to keep the hinges oiled on missile silos?
ReplyDeleteFor now, at least for today, I am distracting myself from thinking about the impending apocalypse by writing about spa days for camels.
We should all watch "Planet of the Apes" again. We may need the pointers.
ReplyDeleteYes. I can't add to this, you've Nailed it.
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