I don't know much, but I know one thing.

[originalpckelly]

I know no person is qualified to wield an instantaneous holocaust, but that that's expected of the President. Do you really think any person in this world should have so much power or responsibility?

There are probably plans to do something if he goes off his rocker, but I still worry that he'll not be crazy, he'll just fuck up and we'll be the ones to suffer. And all presidents are subject to this.

I know that it's insane to live in a world that's basically two guys in the street with guns to each other's heads.

This strangeness is beyond understanding. How you people talk about anything other than that, or how I did, beats me. We conduct our lives under the blade of a guillotine. I do not wish to live in that kind of world anymore. Do you?

It is the closeness of this ever present danger that is mind-numbing. This should be on every newscast until the world's nuclear weapons are permanently destroyed.

How do we even get along? I guess we just don't think about it. The end of the human race is more possible because of a human made thing, and we don't do enough about it.

We'll meet again, some sunny day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls

[Journeyman]

1. October 25, 1973 . . .

The only difference between the front line and the home front is your sense of perception -- if you know it's happening, you're a participant in modern nuclear warfare; if not, you're blissfully unaware you're in the midst of a war.


And a quote by Viktor Frankl, to jar you away from sleep:

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

[Synicus Maximus]

2. Remember it is not one person, I can think of at least eight.

They all have control structures around them to keep something really stupid form happening. But with people like NK and Iran joining the club there is more chance for mistakes.