i still think about nukes a lot... do you?

i know, it's passe, what more can one say?

but it's a new age, you know, it's Ophoria, the honeymoon before we realize, he's just another president


mutually assured destruction, that's why we need nukes
isn't that the conventional wisdom?

i know, arguments and rebuttals have been worked out in exquisite detail in decades past... i'm trying to decide what i think about this, getting back to basics - if i had power, decision making levers, where would i stand?

i'm thinking,
the fact that we have all these weapons lying around
is troubling, disgusting, and no, i don't fit it into some
kind of zen vice thing, "ah, well, humans are quirky creatures,
the shenanigans we get up to, it can't be helped, you give monkeys
a supercharged cerebral cortex and they're gonna split atoms
and figure out how to create a critical mass

and after that...
politics...

hiroshima

nagasaki

ended WWII?
was it justified?


NO FATE BUT WHAT WE MAKE FOR OURSELVES
carved on the wooden picnic table in mexico

Metallica And Justice For All, AK-47, Terminator 2
I can't remember if metallica has two 'l's or not"

NO!

No, it's not a goddamn zen vice, it's not something we can live with
i think we should declare ourselves sane
and disarm immediately

yes, i still think about nukes
because of that acid trip i had a few weeks ago
where i was 100% convinced i was seeing the eschaton
the sad end of humanity, we all said fuck it,
we aren't worth saving
and nuked ourselves


maybe i'm still jittering from that last acid trip - maybe if i stop taking psychedelics i will realize that the apocalypse is not immanent... hmmm....


tarik ali was on kootenay co-op radio, pakistani commentator, he seemed to know some shit