Human
beings developed the technology to annihilate the earth in the 1940's. For more than 70 years, we have somehow
managed to avoid ending ourselves and our planet. Our one hope to avoid Armageddon has been the
reasonable caution of sane leaders. Our
greatest fear: that some crazy person,
some insane asshole who sees through the eyes of one maddened by power, would get
control of the switch.
Having
personally lived my entire life under the shadow of the mushroom cloud, I know
how easy it is to compartmentalize the fear of total annihilation...how to
hog-tie it and stuff it far into the back of one's mind. Not to do so has hardly seemed a choice...to
live with that kind of fear right in front of us, every day, would surely drive
us mad.
But
now...NOW is the time to bring that fear front and center. We need it to motivate us to act against the
crazy man in the Oval Office who might just hit that button.
Thinking he won't, or can't, could be the end of us all.
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