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By what chains can we bind our morbid species from igniting a Hydrogen Bomb?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 7, 2015
By what chains can we bind our morbid species from igniting a Hydrogen Bomb
In a previous article From “Bind man by chains of Constitution” to “Bind man by chains of Cryptography”
Thomas Jefferson and Ed Snowden demonstrated that they had No confidence or faith in man behaviors from not using power to circumvent human rights.
Equal Internet to all? Any why science must outpace laws on restricting collective data gathering and national security?
And I’m wondering:
1. By what chains can we bind our morbid species from igniting a Hydrogen Bomb?
2. By what chains can we bind our fickle and instant gratifying species from poisoning our environment to an irreversible state of no return?
If history is a guide, the few occasional decades of enlightenment and culture do Not match the consistent trend of our species for self-immolation
In the last 2 million years of a variety of mankind species, separated in tiny colonies around earth, we were very close to total disappearance. But we didn’t know it.
During all these species existence, we came to admit that the individual is to die sooner or later, and will be survived by offspring, the clan, the tribe…
By August 6, 1945, as the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, it dawned on us that our hopes to be survived by anyone of our species has dwindled dramatically.
In our deep psychic, we are living a pseudo normal existence, in waiting of the ultimate calamity.
How can we recover the hope that our species might live another million years?
In Janus (this two-faced God), Arthur Koestler considered Aug. 6, 1945 as the new calendar: It is the date we are counting the days of our total extermination, a new way of living, on borrowed time, in excruciating apprehension of tomorrow. Probably, there will be No Tomorrow.
By what trusted and inviolable chains can we bind this inconsistent and not so rational species, of 7.5 billion and increasing, regardless of technological stopping activation and multi-layered decision -process that any one of those existing hydrogen bombs will not go off?
Can you imagine a world of a bunch of delinquents being trapped in a room filled with inflammable materials and allowing them to carry lighters and combustible match boxes?
What universal Constitution or universal laws can withstand an institution holding the power to trample transparent decisions and actions, and acting in total darkness of secrecy, and deciding what is good and what is evil?
After Aug. 6, 1945, the world was on the verge of using again the atomic bomb on Berlin 1950 and on Cuba 1962.
After Aug. 6, 1945 we experienced more wars, preemptive wars, civil wars supported by external powers… that humanity could have witnessed in all its existence.
After Aug. 6, 1945 many states owns nuclear weapons and the potential countries are increasing rapidly.
After Aug. 6, 1945 the web of satellites (for military, communication purposes) is clogging the outer space and all intelligence agencies are engaged in mass collection of information, intercepting emails, online and telephone communications and eavesdropping on everyone. There is No Place to Hide from the Big Brothers.
After Aug. 6, 1945 most States accumulated stockpile of toxic and deadly biochemical agents that have been used frequently.
After Aug. 6, 1945 our species has acquired this diabolic knowledge of annihilating the living and the plants.
As Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) wrote
“Man has no choice but to live a fiction. We have to accommodate as if:
1. the illusions of our senses represent the ultimate reality
2. we have to convince our selves that we have free wills and are mostly responsible for our acts
3. We had to admit that a God must exist in order to recompense our virtues and good deeds
4. As if the individual is not condemned to die, until much later
5. And prepare his future as if his days are not counted
6. As if the potential calamities are mere probabilities, probabilities at the far end of the tails of the graph that will never happens
After Aug. 6, 1945, we must be listening to the tic tac of the bomb attached on our neck. If this bomb failed to be activated, one of our neighbor’s bomb will not fail.
So far, we live in the fallacy that we can reverse what we were capable of doing, and that we have enough time to counter the imminent danger of total annihilation.
What we have come to term to realize is that the rational thinking portion in our species is never sustainable to give us a convincing reprieve: We act on instant gratifications, fallacies, myths and illusions.
Can we blame those extremist, one directional movements and dogmas, claiming to abide by a God orders and laws, who are acting up from shear fear and desperation in understanding the current conditions and holding on to an exterminating Allah. Bakunin would have characterized these movements as Believing without a God and Heroes without any Phrases. no matter how insistent they are in shouting their mantra Takbir.
These movements are claiming to revert to outdated “going to the Roots” periods that they feel suit their temperament, period of simple predictable and conformist societies.
These youth committing suicide bombing and “killing death” so that they avoid doomsday at Day Zero. As is the case of all religions claiming that doomsday is very close to fall on our head.
Main danger for democracy: Isolated technocrats not bearing political responsibilies?
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 9, 2010
Bakunin predicted in the 19th century how political systems will be run that we are witnessing realization; he wrote: “The technocrats (educated people) has but two alternatives: either they profit from popular struggles and take power and then, institute “red bureaucracy” that will exert terrible tyrannies; or they will be at the service of “democratic” capitalist systems of barons of industries. In the second alternative, the technocrats will strike the people with people’s sticks.”
Thus, both political systems of capitalism and communism rely on the same technocrats to running policies, For example, the same technocrats in former communist States (that git their independence from former Soviet Union) are the ones indulging in the new capitalist system and reaping individual fortunes; they are the ones most vocal for capitalist market systems.
The American Charles Francis Adams wrote in 1880: “Our future depends of universities, schools, specialists, experts, writers, and of all administrators of ideological and economic institutions.” They are the current technocrats or engaged educated people. He resumed: “Citizens are no longer asked to maintaining such or such political parties in power. Citizens are to just respect order and submit to laws.” The people should be mere spectators to actions of the technocrats. Fact is people have even relinquished being spectators: They refuse to vote and judge the performance of their elected politicians. They are becoming “apolitical”.
The isolated technocrats, professionals, experts in public and private institutions write reports that satisfy the desires of their masters, patrons, and deep pocket financiers. The reports are to be devoid of any ethical and moral considerations lest the technocrats are evaluated “emotional” and delinquent soft of mind. The isolated technocrats learn quickly to submit practical alternatives “ethically neutral” for victory. The end result justifies the sordid means.
The technocrats are running policies independently of politics. Is that how democracy is defined? To isolate technocrats from political responsibilities?
The technocrats recover their moral standing after they are fired or led to pasture on retirement: They write their autobiographies and considerations when it is too late to affect the course of actions in reforming democracy and fighting the main sources of power behind the shadowy governments: the multinational and monopolistic entreprises.
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