By Ethan Indigo Smith
This is a quick response to Gwynne Dyer's barbarous 'article'
Nuclear Madness in which he lays out the ridiculous rhetorical madness supportive
of nuclear experimentation only ideologues could conjure.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20121126gd.html
The article starts
off with gross exaggeration used as a tool for humorous distraction. This is a classic diversion technique used by
those who seek to discredit alternative perspective. It's a Martian diversion, an insertion of
ridicule that makes those who suggest alternative perspective to the
institutional formality as absurd. This
tactic is used whenever anyone questions the official presentation, the formality
as opposed to the truth (for elaboration on formality and truth see here: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/11/political-formality-and-truth.html )
of the situation. Gwynne begins and
infuses his 'article' with inept journalistic attempts at humor. I say inept both because he's not funny and
it's obvious he researched the subject of nuclear experimentation with the
intent of supporting formality not finding information. He then counts the relatively small number of
deaths immediately following the nuclear reactor meltdowns --and that's it. He does not compute the evacuees, the
destroyed environment and the fact that we are only 67 years into a global
experiment of eons.
He then goes into the old despicable
comparison of burning fossil fuels globally as if it is somehow different from
burning nuclear fuels. He further
tangentially reduces the global-warming debate to one of temperature and not
the paradigm poisoning caused by man instituting the petrolithic era and the
nuclear era. He belittles the global-warming debate by removing the root of the question: are our actions destroying
our environment? Petrol and nuclear-sourced
fuels are all bad for life, but good for business. These two oligarchical energy sources are the
same formation of oligarchical extraction, refinement and distribution,
benefiting a few and costing all life on the planet. These energy systems destroy everything at
every step.
Nuclear
experimentation has destroyed has destroyed whole regions of the planet and
degraded the whole planet in incalculable ways.
To criticize any institution or any individual for changing course away
from nuclear experimentation is equivalent to suggesting we have reached the
pinnacle of invention and need to proceed no farther. There are endless alternative-energy systems,
but none so intensely oligarchical, beneficial to a few.
Another obvious
omission in this 'article' is the fact that no other energy system is so
supportive of the military-industrial complex and thus, war. To act as if one can measure the Pandoric nuclear
environmental destruction reaped on our entire planet is a fool, for we are 67
years into an experiment of hundreds of thousands of years. To calculate the costs of nuclear
experimentation would take a real journalist, not an ideologue or dare I say
shill. We cannot measure how catastrophic
nuclear experimentation only considering the last couple of decades. But we can start with the facts. The fact is nuclear experimentation is fuel
for the military-industrial complex and energy oligarchs. And nuclear experimentation has destroyed
parts of the earth which were once pristine, Ukraine, Japan and Bikini Atoll to
name just a few. Without even taking
into account the deaths Gwynne pointed out as being insignificant
quantification for change, without attempting to count the innumerable deaths nuclear
experimentation has caused, there is stark reason for ceasing nuclear
experimentation.
