Wellerstein writes, "The fact that the “nuclear war would be really bad” seems to have become possibly linked to “and that’s why it won’t happen” is indeed one of the concerns I have...."
That is indeed a very interesting mindset.
The "it's too bad to actually happen" perspective seems based on an assumption that human affairs are governed…
Wellerstein writes, "The fact that the “nuclear war would be really bad” seems to have become possibly linked to “and that’s why it won’t happen” is indeed one of the concerns I have...."
That is indeed a very interesting mindset.
The "it's too bad to actually happen" perspective seems based on an assumption that human affairs are governed by reason. Such an assumption requires one to ignore the history of human warfare, the well documented cases where we've come within minutes of global nuclear war by mistake, and the remarkable fact that even when we are right in the middle selecting a single human being to have sole authority over civilization ending weapons, almost nobody wants to talk about those weapons.
That is, the "it's too bad to actually happen" perspective uses very poor logic and data to propose that human affairs are governed by reason, thus becoming an argument with itself.
Seeing this logic failure clearly raises another question which seem very appropriate for an expert in the history of science.
Is there a limit to how much power human beings can successfully manage?
The following article proposes one answer:
The Logic Failure At The Heart Of The Modern World
Wellerstein writes, "The fact that the “nuclear war would be really bad” seems to have become possibly linked to “and that’s why it won’t happen” is indeed one of the concerns I have...."
That is indeed a very interesting mindset.
The "it's too bad to actually happen" perspective seems based on an assumption that human affairs are governed by reason. Such an assumption requires one to ignore the history of human warfare, the well documented cases where we've come within minutes of global nuclear war by mistake, and the remarkable fact that even when we are right in the middle selecting a single human being to have sole authority over civilization ending weapons, almost nobody wants to talk about those weapons.
That is, the "it's too bad to actually happen" perspective uses very poor logic and data to propose that human affairs are governed by reason, thus becoming an argument with itself.
Seeing this logic failure clearly raises another question which seem very appropriate for an expert in the history of science.
Is there a limit to how much power human beings can successfully manage?
The following article proposes one answer:
The Logic Failure At The Heart Of The Modern World
https://www.tannytalk.com/p/the-logic-failure-at-the-heart-of