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<p>Merle -</p>
<p>Despite 3 decades inside the belly of the LANL/DOE/NNSA beast and
an apologist for MAD at least up until the fall of the Soviet
Union I am no fan of Nuclear Power (much less Weapons). Two of my
close neighbors are veterans of the LANL nuclear-waste-disposal
industry and *are* apologists/proponents for that whole business
model, but transparently (to me) based on the way their bread was
(and still is) buttered by all of that. They are otherwise
pretty good, positive, hopeful people (as we first worlders go)
but have a blind spot the size of that buttered bread that means
we have no substantially meaningful conversations in that area.<br>
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<p>Holtec and the state/national politics of NIMB are yet another
tragedy of our failed experiments of representative democracy, and
manic hypercapitalism. I do NOT hold utopian hypersocialist or
hypercommunist fantasies, nor have any interest in promoting the
myth of the "benign dictator" either, and am discouraged by how
the tug-of-war between parties and the ideologies they espouse
"tramples the grass" (to mis-quote Glen's inverted signature
line). </p>
<p>Spending 2 months traveling/hanging in northern Europe, trying to
suss out how different *that* manic hypercapitalist suite of
representative democracies/societies function (nation by nation,
subculture by subculture, and the EU Federation at-large) with the
added parallax of Brexit and Russia's War on Ukraine and
NATO/West's War on Russia's economy, I am at least mildly hopeless
that we (the collective industrialized West/humanity-at-large) are
on any path to resolution of the looming existential threats that
are auto-generated by our short-sighted excesses. At least not in
the modes (primarily political) we are pursuing. <br>
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<p>Anyone here read(ing) Feffer's <a
href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/28818724">Splinterlands</a>?</p>
<p>Your organized (global existential threats) meeting in Stockholm
in 2019 gave me some new insight and hope in this regard...
recently my re-readings of Bateson... some posts here, and a
deeper dive into Terrence Deacon have been a good distraction if
not a hint of an exit ramp from the blunt hopelessness that too
much staring at a problem can yield.</p>
<p>BTW, I did find the OP in your thread's use of Instagram
disingenous in the way Glen often points out that we oldsters
often completely miss the "appropriate use" of different
technologies. I'm sure her intentions were good, trying to expand
the audience for the message or avoid various (self/other)
censoring by platform/channel? But I personally restrict my use
of Instagram to "photoblogging" with text and especially
politically oriented content extremely limited (e.g. I let BLM
into my stream for a day). Among those who fled FB because of
it's rampant politicization, I find many who went to IG to have
turned around and re-injected the same energy. As (???
Kempis/Berra/kabat-zinn/watts/??) famously said, "no matter where
you go, there you are"?</p>
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<p><deleted threadjack tangent reflecting on morphodynamics cum
teleodynamics and the future of humanity/the-biosphere></p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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