On the same page, Harry S. Truman again reminded me that this carnage was sadly unavoidable: “My fellow Americans, the British, Chinese and United States governments have given the Japanese people adequate warning of what is in store for them. The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.”
The willingness of the Japanese leaders to let other people die for the sake of their own power is disturbing, but since I first saw the images of Hiroshima, I’ve been equally fascinated by the willingness of the United States to murder women and children in order to “send a message” to their actual enemies. World War II was a crisis point that laid bare some ugly facts that aren’t usually so stark and clear: that we are all essentially hostages to our governments, our leaders.
“We think the price is worth it,” said Madeleine Albright, when she was asked about half a million dead children in Iraq. Of course, none of her three daughters had actually died—she was talking about the price that The Little People were paying, somewhere else. In that, she’s little different from any other world leader. The price is always worth it, and that price is always paid by someone else.
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”The most advanced piece of technology present on this planet is the human being. No mechanical technology has anywhere near the versatility of a human system. Someday the soldiers of the world may come to their highest ideals and realize that only they can agree to disarm the world time bomb.”—Jim Channon
Science has a great deal more to offer than nuclear weapons and novel new ways to die.
Related posts:
- Esoteric Science Roundtable – Paradigm
- Three Episodes of Esoteric Science Roundtable
- Esoteric Science Roundtable – Age of Atlantis (W/ John Michael Greer)
- Esoteric Science Roundtable – Wes Unruh
- Esoteric Science Roundtable – Agents of Change
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