"This is the way the world ends..."

The obvious poem, but apt:

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

Ignore the momentous explosions and panic, and imagine the squandering of ten-millenia of human 'civilization', and the eon this biosphere has endured since the last ice-age: it amounts to a 'whimper'.  Tepco's nonsense in Fukushima has reminded me.  I turned nineteen in 1989, the year 'the West' squandered, but I lived my youth doomed: that scene above was going to be my future.  We've forgotten.

Stupid humans.  Nobody talks about nuclear apocalypse anymore.  Just because we do not now have a nuclear arms race, I can't imagine why we think this threat has gone away.  I idiotically identified as a 'conservative' then, learning my life depended on the whim of sociopaths has a lot to do with my very different politics now.  I finished high school well enough to get into a decent university, but I can't say I was ever driven.  Thinking back, I wonder how much bovine faith you had to have before 1989 to be driven for a future.  They were right, but it was a close run thing; you can flip heads five times in a row, but...

If you're much under forty, or have a bad memory, watch some clips on this page of nuclear war movies.  Poor consumer taste , and the abyss: the 1980s.