syke6’s three links of the Chernobyl movie are representative of the excellence of the movie, and show not only the fatal flaw in much nuclear reactor design but also the fatal flaw in modern human culture. The “men who worked in the control room” of a nuclear power plant “did not understand it either.” Ummm, that was the death sentence. A universal death sentence for modernity if we do not change course.
LOOK, there is something utterly, almost incomprehensibly important, but that important thing is something that “we”*** do not want to accept or even take cognizance of; the possibiity that the catastrophes we are now in and others that we are bringing on ourselves is because of our clinging to one of the fundamental superstitions of mankind: that the sandbox playground of earth will always somehow renew itself erasing our idiocies so we can “play again”. NO.
HUMANS have become the “controllers” of something far more complex and almost infinitely more powerful than a nuclear reactor, to wit, a planetary atmospheric and ecological system now [for the first time in planetary history] profoundly linked to our amoral human political economic systems.
Disaster disaster disaster.
Yes, my point is that GCC and Chernobyl and the idiocy of Putin and others I will not name are all symptoms of the failure of human wisdom to grow anywhere near as rapidly as human knowledge. The growth of human knowledge is now driven more by avarice and power hunger than by an awed loving curiosity about the universe.
So we are damned.
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the ***we above is the crux of the post. I mean by that “we” not only an aggregation of billions of individual “I’s”, but more profoundly by far the now dying and looted common wealth of our mutually inherited wisdom and loving connection across generations through all time.