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Forget Hashtag Activism: a Millennial's Guide To Nuclear Weapons Realism
Lasrick writes: Matthew Costlow is frustrated with his generation's tendency of "hashtag activism" and would like Millennials instead to get real on the issue of nuclear weapons. He writes: "Allow me to suggest a radical new mindset for my generation as it confronts the issues of nuclear disarmament, Russian and Chinese aggression, and nuclear proliferation: extreme humility. Instead of 'boldly' proclaiming the need to raise awareness, let's utilize our generation's greatest asset—access to data—and truly understand the issues before trying to solve anything. Instead of proposing 'fresh ideas' for their own sake, let's recognize that we are not the first generation to deal with these issues and probably will not be the last. Instead of studiously avoiding specifics or hard choices, let's face a messy reality and not simplify an increasingly complex world to bumper-sticker activism."
Neocons have mod points today, I see. Mod parent up, or drown yourself in the bloodied intestines of children burned alive from the inside by US made white phosphorus weapons. Either way, it will have no impact on the Imperial aggression or coming collapse of the United States.
on getting Millennials focused on the "nuclear weapon proliferation" problem. A lot of good it will do them while their world becomes a devastated chaos from man made "climate change".
How many more nations this century will develop nuclear weapons? Obtaining the raw material and then refining it is still an intractable problem which only can be attempted at a nation state level. Its not even realistically implementable by a multinational corporation. Even if there are small "rogue" nations that develop the capability to implement such weapons, the first world has developed technologically to the point it can shutdown most delivery systems.
On the other hand, once the global warming effect kicks in, most of the developed real estate in the world will be under water, the weather will inflict damage equivalent to small nuclear fission devices, and desertification will devastate most food producing nations. That's going to have way more impact on "first world problems" than a "rogue" nuclear state.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
Mao certainly did intend to kill everyone and anyone who questioned his leadership in any way
Mao Ze Dong certainly ain't an angel, but one can certainly state the same about Bush/Cheney on Iraq, Hollander on Libya, or Obama on Syria
Try not throwing too many rocks around while living inside a glass house
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !