The culture of "nuclear strategy" has long been known to be an antic and irrational one, where a stolid devotion to a technocratic vision of ice-cold realism—in terms of accepting the enormity of the destruction inherent to nuclear calculations, the reduction of all the horrors of nuclear war to mathematical calculations and actuarial tables—exists right alongside a crude but fierce dedication to a profoundly non-rational view of the world and humanity, explaining all conflicts and all disputes in terms of competition for social dominance and sexual fitness.
I suggest that the flourishing of this nuclear-strategist culture has resulted in appalling consequences for U.S. and Western thought. Fierce dedication to the topsy-turvy logic of nuclear deterrence has surely been a source of intellectual poisons and distortions. And surely it all feeds back into how people view #money and #value.
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