Because at the end of the day a nuclear crisis is infinitely easier to identify and fight than the slowly metastasizing moral cancer we face
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It's easy to say no to nuclear war. Dysgenic and societal decay is infinitely more seductive and easy. It grooms its own disciples.
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What we face now is infinitely more organic and seductive than nuclear war. It spreads virally via trauma, inducing acolytes via suffering
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My father comforts me saying "look at me son, I too faced the dragon, and lo! I have defeated it" it gives me some comfort.
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But dad, I really hate to say it, but I don't think we can slay this dragon. I don't think I'll be able to say the same to my son.
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We've all been consumed. We're all living in the belly of the dragon. And I suppose the only way out is through.
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we are faced with the prospect not of sudden fiery annihilation, but the indignity of a quiet death that will span generations
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in the instant before nuclear sublimation, man may face that which will consume him. horrible as it may be, it is a moment of naked equality
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to be denied the absolution of this final audience with one's fate is its own horror. to be lonely and unacknowledged at the end.
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I imagine this is how Keats felt when he died.
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