I just want the rapidly rising threat of nuclear war to be treated, reported on, and discussed like the supremely important issue that it is. It's the single most important matter in the world and it just gets casually mentioned here and there like it's just another issue.
I mean like you'll see things like The New York Times just offhand mentioning how NATO and Russia are getting closer and closer to hot war, then they just move on like it's nothing! It's like, uh, hey, can we go back to that whole nuclear armageddon thing?
It's actually a huge problem that nobody wants to talk about the single most important issue in the world and everyone acts like you're a crazy hysterical idiot for pointing out the very real ways we're moving closer to that very real possibility.
I've been writing about the growing risk of nuclear war for years and people have been calling me a delusional lunatic and a Putin puppet the entire time, meanwhile we've demonstrably and indisputably been seeing massive steps toward that outcome and it's STILL being dismissed.
Even if you believe that all this nuclear brinkmanship is justified and good, you still need to fully acknowledge the reality of the risk and the unfathomable horrors that it would unleash upon our world. And you need to do it with all the solemnity it deserves.
See and when you try to talk about it you get comments like this, acting like you're a delusional Chicken Little who's worried about an impossible imaginary disaster and not a very real and increasingly likely outcome we've come very close to in the past.
Normalcy bias describes the irrational human tendency to ignore disaster warnings because such a disaster would differ from people's expected norms.
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We came a hair's breadth from nuclear annihilation at the height of the last cold war; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson said humanity survived the Cuban Missile Crisis by "plain dumb luck". There's no logical reason to believe we'll get lucky again.
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Indeed, we've come close on more than one occasion. This game of Russian roulette isn't safe just because the pistol hasn't gone off yet, and ramping up brinkmanship is like putting extra bullets in the gun.
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