Rupture or rapture: limited nuclear war is an oxymoron, no matter who believes it to be meaningful.
> On Aug 14, 2017, at 7:29 AM, Morlock Elloi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Urban populations ... no one will waste nukes on peasants. Peasants and the > ruling class will survive. > > Do a search on "luxury shelters" or "doomsday bunkers" - from $1MM to $40MM a > pop. It doesn't matter if they will work or not - what matters is that the > buyers believe they will, and these buyers are the ones making the nuking > decisions. > > Between the Silicon Valley psychopaths working on personal immortality, 5 > megacorps amassing trillions in cash and not spending it, and the top 0.001% > becoming preppers, it's obvious that there is a general belief among the > ruling class that these tumultuous times will end in some kind of rupture, > and they are getting ready. No one likes the times we live in. I don't have > any doubts that those of them loosely identifying as "Americans" will opt for > the nuclear gamble if faced with losing the imperial status. They are > certainly ready to play the nuclear gamble for far less - like losing the > elections. > >> On 8/13/17, 19:44, Thomas Keenan wrote: >> "A limited nuclear war" ... limited to whom? > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
